Google introduces Classroom for Google Apps for Education - Polidicks

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUiLc0If0CI[/media] [url]http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2014/05/previewing-new-classroom.html[/url] [quote=Zach Yeskel/Google]As a former high school math teacher, I know all too well that teachers spend a ton of valuable time doing things other than teaching - waking up early to grade quizzes, collecting and returning piles of paper assignments, and battling copy machine paper jams. But with today's technology it doesn’t have to be this way. Many teachers and professors have found ways to use technology to be better educators and avoid busy work. We spent the past year working closely with many educators to understand the systems they use to simplify their workloads, so they can get back to doing what they love - teaching. Today, in honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, we're announcing a preview of Classroom, a new, free tool in the Google Apps for Education suite. It helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and communicate with their classes with ease. Classroom is based on the principle that educational tools should be simple and easy to use, and is designed to give teachers more time to teach and students more time to learn. With Classroom, you'll be able to: - Create and collect assignments: Classroom weaves together Google Docs, Drive and Gmail to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly. They can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback to individual students. - Improve class communications: Teachers can make announcements, ask questions and comment with students in real time - improving communication inside and outside of class. - Stay organized: Classroom automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student. Students can easily see what’s due on their Assignments page.[/quote] [url]http://www.google.com/edu/classroom/[/url]

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All they need to do now is for this to work alongside open projects like Khan Academy. That'd be some unstoppable supplementary education.

This really isn't new, google services has been free to higher education for a long time.

Google: taking over the world, one classroom at a time Also we already do this at my school with google docs and google drive lol. We just share our work with the teacher

So its google's version of blackboard? I like this idea, since blackboard is pretty much awful.

This kind of online stuff for uploading and downloading school stuff has been around for years now, who the hell hasn't used it?

[QUOTE=Complifused;44749499]This kind of online stuff for uploading and downloading school stuff has been around for years now, who the hell hasn't used it?[/QUOTE] has it ever not sucked? I trust google to make a good user experience, unlike anything I've used, like Canvas

[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;44749465]This really isn't new, google services has been free to higher education for a long time.[/QUOTE] Bad Reading x 1 (list) It isn't [I]just[/I] Drive/Gmail.

[QUOTE=Shadaez;44749527]has it ever not sucked? I trust google to make a good user experience, unlike anything I've used, like Canvas[/QUOTE] From my experience with the schools I've been to using their website to set tests and homework it's been so easy to use and not sucky at all. I don't know what canvas is but I think my college used moodle and the university I'm at now uses is and it hasn't failed me yet.

A classroom with computers? now that's what i'm talking about.. ᵂᵉ ᶰᵉᵛᵉʳ ᵍᵒᵗ ᵗʰᵒˢᵉˢ, ᴵ ʷᶦˢʰ ᴵ ᵍᵒᵗ, ᶠᵘᶜᵏ ᵖᵉᶰˢ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵇᶫᵃᶜᵏᵇᵒᵃʳᵈˢ ᵃᶰᵈ ᵖᵃᵖᵉʳˢ

[QUOTE=Splash Attack;44749488]So its google's version of blackboard? I like this idea, since blackboard is pretty much awful.[/QUOTE] O holy Google, save us from the Dark Blackboard.

Happy coincidence something like this comes along right in the middle of Extra Credits' month long series on games/technology and education. Part 2 just came out this morning [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmdx7ZL8OM[/media]

my dog ate my laptop thats why i couldnt do the homework