Last updated on 17 August 2014
Google Classroom announced a few months ago by the Mountain View firm is at the rendezvous of the fall. The new tool of the Google Apps suite for education has been available for a few days for all users and in 42 languages, including French of course.
With Classroom, Google can be drawn A major asset to sustainably enter the education market. Google Classroom shines with its ease of use and handling, but also with the services it will provide to a teacher by helping him or her to give and plan homework quickly, to send comments efficiently and to communicate with the students in their classes.
Google Classroom offers a kind of virtual class where the teacher goes communicate with students , porpose and retrieve their homework online. Classroom was designed with teachers ad Google. To see the result there is no doubt.
As a teacher you will be able to create as many classes as you want. Students register manually, but you can also give them a unique code with which they can register.
The interface is clear. Three tabs:
Stream is the timeline of your class where you can post info or homework.
Students, this is where you manage the list of your students.
By the way, it is the presentation of your course and your business card allowing students to contact you.
The timeline allows you to post ads or propose homework. You can choose a document from your Google Drive and set a deadline for your students to return it. Students follow the dates of renders on the "Duties" page and can start working with a single click. Teachers see on their personal dashboard that has or has not completed an assignment. They also have the opportunity to comment or rate the exercises live and in real time.
At the same time, Google will automatically create Drive folders for each assignment and for each student in a general folder for each class. Ultra-convenient to navigate.
Google has no doubt that it will gradually add other options to this A new tool to become the flagship of the American company on the Tice field.
Google Classroom is part of the Google Apps suite for education. Like the other services in this suite, Classroom does not contain advertisements, does not use your content or student data for advertising purposes. It is available free of charge for schools.
Link: Google Classroom.
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Hello,
Thank you for the description of Google Classroom. As often happens, you are so good at making people want to use a given tool! Just one note: it might be worth mentioning that you need a domain to host Google Classroom and that Google offers to buy one (currently priced at €7 per year). It is not expensive, of course, and schools probably have such an area, but it is not entirely free of charge.
Hello Eva and thank you for your comment.
What you're saying is absolutely right. To be able to use Google apps for education you need to buy a domain name. It is therefore not entirely free of charge, even if it is a minimal cost.
In fact, you can use a subdomain. The only thing is that you have to prove that you are "owner" in fact that you can place a file in it (or change the dns which is more complex)
Hello,
for the free side it is not only Google, we have set up a completely free platform for teachers. paying for schools. but in both cases without advertising and without exploitation of the cognitive data of users.
the platform is located at this address http://free.spocee.com
It is based on claroline connect.