The other really important audience is other creators and developers that work alongside Classroom.” “I think you’ll see us expand to really understand and meet the needs of students and administrators as other important users in the products that we’re building. “So far we’ve been laser-focused on the needs of teachers,” he says. Although Google did not mention specifics on what’s ahead for its product, Yeskel says they will look at doing more for other users of the platform. Teachers also wanted to plan ahead for classes, and in Classroom they can draft and schedule posts. Just invite the parents and then they get these digests, and it all just works behind the scenes,” Yeskel adds. “We tried to make it really straightforward. Features like the guardian notifications and adding multiple teachers to a class were developed out of user feedback, he says. Zach Yeskel, a product manager at Google, says they spent about a year and a half researching and talking to educators about the tool.
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Now comments, grading, assigning and working all exist on the free platform built on top of Google Drive.
In August 2016, Google added a guardian summary feature for parents to receive updates on their student’s work, missing assignments or classroom announcements. According to Google, another 50 million students and teachers around the world were using Google applications, from Gmail to Chrome.Īlong the way, the company has added features for teachers to manage several classes and invite collaborators, as well as adding the API for administrators and developers to integrate Classroom with outside applications. By October 2015, Google estimated some 10 million students and teachers were using it. Google Classroom launched in August 2014 and advertised itself as the one-stop-shop to save teachers time so they can focus on teaching. In short, Classroom wants to be a lightweight learning management system. What Classroom aims to provide is a way to package these apps together and add features unique to what teachers and students need. Many schools already use Google’s suite of productivity tools - Docs, Sheets and Slides. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle and Schoology, Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes. Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted them for the classroom.
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