Google Classroom

Classroom helps classes communicate, save time, and stay organised.

Resource Type: Online Classroom

Designed for schools. Aims to simplify creating, distributing & grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers & students.

Recommended by our Digital Champions:
Tomas Mangan
ATU Galway-Mayo

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Ease of Use
3/5
The tool has a user-friendly interface and it is easy for instructors and students to become skillful with in a personalized and intuitive manner.
Media Rich & Flexible Features
2/5
The tool promotes a mix of forms for learners (audio, visual, textual) but is limited in its ability to provide non-sequential, flexible/adaptive engagement with material
Mobile Design & Functionality
3/5
The tool can be accessed either via app or a mobile browser, regardless of the mobile operating system and device. Design of the mobile tool fully takes into consideration the constraints of a smaller-sized screen and has full functionality.
Integration / Embedding with Moodle
/5
Not applicable.
Support / Help
/5
Not applicable.
Facilitation
2/5
The tool has limited functionality to effectively support an instructor’s ability to be present with learners via activemanagement, monitoring, engagement, and feedback
Learning Analytics
2/5
Instructor can monitor learners’ performance on limited measures; or data is not presented in a format that is easily interpreted
Enhancement of Cognitive Tasks
2/5
The tool enables functional improvement to engagement in the targeted cognitive task(s)
Metacognitive Engagement
3/5
Through the tool, learners can regularly receive formative feedback on learning (i.e. they can track their performance, monitor their improvement, test their knowledge)
Collaboration
2/5
The tool has the capacity to support a community of learning through asynchronous but not synchronous opportunities for communication, interactivity, and transfer of meaning between users
Sign Up / Sign In
/5
Not applicable.
Archiving, Saving, and Exporting Data
2/5
There are limitations to archiving, saving, or importing/exporting content or activity data
User-focused Participation
2/5
The tool has some limited capacity to address the needs of diverse users, their various literacies, and capabilities
Cost of Use
3/5
All aspects of the tool can be used free of charge.
There is no IT support available for this product in any of the institutes.

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