Google has launched Classroom a new tool designed to help teachers communicate more effectively with students as part of its Apps for Education suite.
Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes.
Classroom is open to all Google Apps for Education users.The goal is to help teachers “spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers,” wrote Zach Yeskel, Classroom product manager.
Google launched a preview of Classroom in May.Google says more than 100,000 educators from more than 45 countries signed up for a preview.
Number of modifications have been made to Classroom following feedback from teachers during the preview stage.
One of the first schools to use Classroom was Fontbonne Hall Academy in Brooklyn, New York. A teacher of over 60 years, Sister Rosemarie DeLoro, found that the free service made it easier to assign digital worksheets to students in her Italian class and provide direct feedback. Sister Rosemarie said, “You can’t stay in teaching and keep going to the old ways.”
Today onwards anyone with a Google Apps for Education account can now use the service.
Classroom is available in 42 languages (including right-to-left ones, such as Hebrew, Arabic and Persian).
Both Apps for Education and Classroom are free.But users have to register with a school code to use Classroom.
