Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools. It aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. Google Classroom integrates Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Calendar. Assignments are stored and graded on Google’s suite of productivity applications.
About Google Classroom in brief
Google Classroom is a free web service developed by Google for schools. It aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. Google Classroom integrates Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, and Calendar. Teachers can create, distribute and mark assignments all within the Google ecosystem. Assignments are stored and graded on Google’s suite of productivity applications that allow collaboration between the teacher and the student or student to student. It is estimated between 40 to 100 million users use Google Classrooms. The service can be accessed on the web or iOS apps via the Classroom interface or via the Android Classroom app on the Google Play store or the iOS app store on the iPhone and iPad. It was announced on May 6, 2014, with a preview available for some members of Google’s G Suite for Education program. In 2015 Google announced a Classroom API and a share button for websites. In 2018, Google introduced a major redesign to Classroom.
This included adding a new classwork section, improving the grading interface, allowing reuse of classwork from other classes, and adding features for teachers to organize content by topic. In 2020, Google added better integration with Google Meet so that teachers can have a unique meet link within each class. Students can be invited to classrooms through the institution’s database, through a private code that can then be added in the student’s user interface or automatically imported from a school domain. In 2017, Google opened Classroom to allow any personal Google users to join classes without the requirement of having a G suite for Education account, and in April of the same year, it became possible for any personal user to create and teach a class. In 2019, Google introducing 78 new illustrated themes and the option to drag and drop topics.
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