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Google Workspace for Education is one of the most popular educational packages for a reason. Google Classroom is an intuitive tool that facilitates project handling, increases learning effectiveness and motivates students to communicate on a regular basis.
The Google Workspace package for schools and colleges includes 11 main applications, like Gmail, Sheets, Documents, Presentations, Calendar, Drive, Classroom plus over 60 others, which can be downloaded from the Marketplace. What exactly distinguishes Google Classroom from other school applications?
Top 10 benefits of Google Classroom
1. Access to information anytime, anywhere
Google Classroom is an application that is part of the Google Workspace for Education package – it works online taking full advantage of the possibilities of the cloud. You and your students don’t have to install any software on your computers. Assigning tasks to students is done remotely, this also applies to learning
2. Multi-activity management
You can easily manage classes: archive them, share entries about various classes. Post any announcement, task, or question during a lesson.
3. Extensive material
You can add materials from various sources to our tasks: they can be videos from YouTube, PDF files or surveys from Google Forms. Students and teachers can draw and annotate shared PDF files (option available in the mobile application). All of the content you find on the internet can be shared with the group using the “Share to Classroom” function.
4. Enabling discussion during classes
A thorough discussion of each assignment will allow students to better understand a particular problem. So you can engage students in discussions, create questions, and place the most important ones at the beginning of a specific thread.
5. Easy grading
Google Classroom allows teachers to check on an ongoing basis which students have already submitted their assignments. They can also issue grades, which will be displayed to students after acceptance of homework. In the application Teacher can also add comments to the evaluated works.
6. Organization of students
Google Classroom automatically creates a Calendar for each class. This allows students to access the lesson schedule and scheduled activities on the class page and in the class calendar.
7. Communication with parents
You can keep parents and guardians informed about the progress in learning via email. They also receive notifications about current classes.
8. An eco-friendly way of learning
Because everything is done online, you don’t need to waste paper and other office materials. We are also sure that no materials or submitted assignments will be lost by accident, they will always be available in the cloud.
9. Good organization
All active tasks can be found in the “To do” tab. Classes can be freely filtered, and any shared material is automatically saved to Google Drive.
10. Prepare your material in advance
Teachers can create drafts of tasks and entries, which will be automatically published at a predetermined time.
The features listed above are only a small part of all the benefits Google Classroom and its available features. The Google Workspace tool for schools expands the perspective of students and teachers, making acquiring knowledge simpler and more effective.
As an official Google Partner, we help schools transfer their work to the cloud based on Google Workspace and Classroom. If you have a question about the service please contact us.
