Google will release an education platform for teacher-student communication
May 12, 2014
On September, as part of Google’s Apps for Education lineup of products, the giant search engine will release Classroom— an education platform and app for teacher-student communication.
- It will use Docs, Drive and Gmail to create and collect assignments.
- It will create Drive folders for each assignment and for each student.
- It will let teachers make announcements, ask questions and field student responses in real time.
In other words, this free LMS will also provide:
- Assignments;
- Grading;
- Real-time questions and feedback on student work;
- Announcements;
- Commenting; and
- Homework collection and organization.
In a way, many folks are already using that process. Google is now basically streamlining this process.
So far, Google is keeping Classroom invite-only. First group of pilot testers will start in June.
