Google Classroom Reviews

Google Classroom is a learning management system. The features I used most was introducing myself in the main forum and providing assignments to the classroom. It was very good in terms of getting messages out quickly and uploading certain documents that were instrumental for the students' lessons. They were able to receive feedback as well as provide messages to me. If I needed to send a message to a student individually, I was able to do that very easily, and grade whatever assignments they submitted.

I can't address how it improved the organization and this was the only platform I used. I can say that the training and onboarding was simple and seamless.

What I liked most about Google Classroom was that it was very easy to communicate with the students and simple for me to learn even though it was my first time using it. I was able to learn the features very well by navigating through different discussion forums and becoming proficient in using the solutions. Ease of use was the best feature.

Some platforms are for more sophisticated users and may not be easy for novice users to understand or navigate. Ease of use is a very important aspect when teaching young children. If you lose their focus early on, it's very hard to get it back.

The ability to upload certain things instrumental for my class and lessons was also very valuable. Additionally, it was very simple to assign points to the students.

Students are used to having accumulated points and letter grades. Google Classroom should add a feature by which you can toggle in between points and letter grades. Accumulated points mean less than letter grades unless there's a prize or reward for most accumulated points. However, it would be nice if there's a way to toggle between allocating points and allocating grades.

I've used Google Classroom intermittently. The first time I used it was to teach young children for a period of a quarter. It was during a teaching rotation since we were doing everything virtually because of the pandemic and the people that managed the process had been looking at various online and onboarding classroom settings solutions. They decided Google Classroom was the best venue for that. 

I have used Google Classroom for approximately one year.

Google Classroom was reliable in my usage. I did not have any glitches or any issues.

I had a class of approximately 20 students that could use Google Classroom at one time. I never had any problems with my students using the solution, it ran smoothly.

I was using the solution twice a week.

I did not contact the technical support from Google Classroom. I did have a few training modules that were helpful.

I have previously used Microsoft Teams. It was good but Google Classroom was more reliable with fewer glitches and issues.

The organization was the main user of Google Classroom and they would add us (volunteer teachers) onto their platform. I was not involved in the implementation.

I do not think it was difficult for the organization to add me to the solution. We had a training session and they were supportive of any additional questions that we had, especially for people like myself who were using it for the first time. From my experience it was really easy to do. There was an important time when I needed to use Google Earth in one of my classes and it was very easy to do. Additionally, I had to provide Zoom information which was straightforward for the students to access and join me in the classroom.

I had one or two training sessions for approximately an hour each where someone with more experience in Google Classroom went through the features and gave examples on how to do X, Y, and Z. We were able to do a Google search if we had questions about other features we wanted to do and share that amongst each other. It was very easy for a first-time user to become acclimated to it.

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I would highly recommend Google Classroom. It's easy to access and use, which is a very strong feature. I can't emphasize that enough because one of the things I noticed, especially in this pandemic, is that everyone has different levels of expertise. Some people use the platform for the first time while others are gurus - there are ranges. To have a platform whereby those who are experienced and those who are new users are both comfortable with it speaks to the versatility of the platform.

I rate Google Classroom a nine out of ten.

We use Google Classroom for better lessons, meetings, communications, and emails.

The most valuable features of Google Classroom are the meetings, mark book, and assignments.

We found that  Google Classroom is it is missing a lot in current engagement. We know it has got guardian access, where it sends the reports to the guardian at the end of either the week or the month, depending on how you set it. However, it lacks collaboration between the teacher, student, and parents. The engagement is mostly between the student and the teacher. If you have a school similar to ours, where you're dealing with little children where the parent is supposed to be engaged, you need a system that can engage them as well. It's good for senior students, but not for our students.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately 10 years.

The stability of Google Classroom is good.

Google Classroom is scalable.

We have approximately 300 people using Google Classroom in my organization.

The support from Google Classroom is very good.

We are using FireFly in parallel with Google Classroom. We compared the two head to head. We had to use Firefly to complement the areas which Google Classroom does not provide, such as the collaboration aspect where the parent is not engaged. Additionally, there's no proper tracking on Google Classroom. Firefly is a good competition for Google Classroom.

The initial setup of Google Classroom is easy.

Google Classroom is a free solution. There is paid version that has more options, the cost is approximately eight dollars per student per month.

Google Classroom is a good start if you are only starting with VLE. It is cheaper, it doesn't cost anything. You can get a free plan which can help you experiment and see what your school needs. Then from there, they can consider the paid version, which can allow you to add on whatever you are missing. However, from what I have seen it is not good for early learning, but much better for high school.

I rate Google Classroom an eight out of ten.

This solution integrates with all the other Google apps including Google Calendar and Google Docs. This makes it very easy to manage. 

It would be useful if this solution had its own online teaching platform with an integration with a Google video conferencing tool. We would also like to have access to a quiz-making or exam-making tool such as that found in Moodle. We would like to be able to create a pool of questions that can be randomly pulled to create different assessments for each student. 

This is a stable solution. 

This is a scalable solution. We have 15 to 20 faculty members and 400 students using this solution. 

We have previously used Moodle which is an overall better solution than Google Classroom. However, Moodle does have some limitations including requiring a server and other resources. Google classroom operates using Google Cloud for free and there is no hardware needed.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

Some users of Google Classroom who do not have technical skills may find implementing and using this solution quite challenging. 

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten. 

I'm a Google-certified educator, as well as a data scientist. It is a learning platform, and we use it for classrooms and communication between teachers and students.

Google Classroom is not a traditional learning management system. It is different in many ways because Google Classroom is really for a classroom. Normally, when you have a traditional learning management system, you need it for the whole school. You need to install a lot of applications, and you need to use a hosting service. You need to have a third-party company, but in order to have Google Classroom, all you need is an account, and individually, any teacher who wants to use it can just create a classroom. That's it. You have total control over everything. In the classroom, you can do video teaching, and you can conduct classes and put assignments, grades, etc. You can add learning material.

Before Google Classroom, I had a lot of regular hard copy folders, and I had to keep a copy of all of the activities I used in the classroom so that I could use them in the future. It was almost impossible for me to find them when I needed them, but by using Google Classroom, everything is sorted, and I can easily access anything I need.

When I first started using it, I also had a lot of digital resources. I had to save them all the time in folders because I had a PC at home, and I had a PC at school. Whenever I needed a document, it was impossible to find. With Google Classroom, I can put everything in one place in a nice and organized way. I can put anything by topic, and there is one place for everything. The best thing that I like about Google Classroom is its integration with Google Drive. Everything you put there is saved in Google Drive, and you can access your files from any device and anywhere.

Another benefit is communication. Normally, Google Classroom isn't meant for communication, but, in fact, it is a wonderful tool for communication between teachers and students. That's because it's difficult for you to remember students' emails all the time. They might not even have an email address, but when you put something in the stream, they are notified. You can also add parents or guardians so that they can keep track of their child's activities. They can see whether they have submitted their assignments. They can follow everything, and they can also see teachers' messages.

Another good thing is that when you are teaching something in the classroom but you don't have time to finish or some of the students need more time, you can just put the assignment or task there. Students can then complete it later at their own pace without any stress. 

Previously, when you covered a topic in class, you were just limited to your books and other things in the classroom, but thanks to Google Classroom, you can expand your lessons. You can give a lot of extra resources. You can put links in Google Classroom where students can see videos and do interactive and fun activities.

It enables cooperation and collaboration among teachers. You can add co-teachers in Google Classroom, and you can share things.

Reusability is what I like the most about Google Classroom. For example, I'm a computer science teacher, and I'm currently teaching programming to year nine students, but next week, I'll start teaching year eight students. I can just reuse the same material. All I need to do is create learning material, such as videos, once, and then it's already there. I don't have to prepare everything again from scratch. I don't have to print anything. It is really economical. Since I started using Google Classroom, I rarely print anything.

Company-wise, the most important feature is that it is a product of Google. It is a part of Google Suite. With Google Classroom, you can easily embed a Google Sheet, Google Doc, or Google Form. You can easily create a quiz in Google Form. It is integrated with Google Drive. So, everything is on Google Drive, and you can easily use it. With single sign-on, you can use it with Google Apps as well. 

Another important feature of Google Classroom is that it is very easy to use. In the middle of March 2020, in Poland, the government suddenly decided that schools were going to be online. We were already in Google Suite, and I gave a single training to my staff members on how to create a classroom, and the next day, we just went live and started teaching online without any interaction. It wouldn't be possible with any other system available so far. 

For school administrators, Google is paying a lot of attention to data protection. There are a lot of tweaks, and you can set proper permissions. 

Google is adding new features all the time, which is very helpful. During the past two years, Google has added a lot of new features. For example, in the classroom, you didn't have Google Meet before. You had to create a Google Meet meeting first, and you had to put links there. They embedded this, which made life really easy. In addition, initially, students could enter the class and they could talk and do a lot of things. They have now limited it. Similarly, to make lessons interactive, Google introduced a new product called Jamboard, which is just like a whiteboard where you can write things down. They have embedded it into Google Meet. During the meeting, you can click Jamboard, and it is automatically shared with all people who are in the meeting. Everybody can write on the same board and collaborate. They're constantly adding new products. For example, about a month ago, I got an invitation from Google that they wanted to introduce a new product, but they didn't say anything about the product. They met senior Google-certified educators. I was one of them. They asked questions about the kind of problems we had with Google Classroom and their other educational products. They mentioned that they are going to introduce new products and new features based on the feedback they got from us. So, they're listening, which is a good thing.

They have recently embedded Google Meet with it, but Google Meet needs to be improved. It is not like Zoom, which has a lot more functionality. So, when it comes to video teaching, Google Meet still needs a lot of improvement.

There are some websites where you can create activities and guide students to do them in a sequence. You can guide them to do an activity first and then go to the next one. You can automatically link activities, and there is a flow, but in Google Classroom, you don't have that feature. All you can do is put the material and tell students what to do. For example, I have an assignment, but I want my students to read a particular text before that. They need to tick it, or they need to click next before they start doing the activity. After that, I want them to do comprehension questions or something else. In Moodle, there are activities such as assignments, quizzes, etc. There is a lesson module in which you can put all of the activities in a flow. So, you can decide what they need to do first. If students answer a question incorrectly, you can decide and design to which page do they need to go next, and which part do they need to review. This is currently missing in Google Classroom.

I've been using Google Classroom for about eight years. Google Classroom is a part of Google Suite, and I have been using Google Suite right from the beginning. Unofficially, I've been using Google Suite since 2004. That's because before Gmail officially became public, you could sign up through an invitation and test it and give feedback. Officially, Google Suite was launched in 2006, but Google Classroom wasn't there in the beginning. They added Google Classroom later, and I've been using it right from the beginning.

This is my third international school since I started using Google products. In all these three schools, I brought, introduced, and implemented Google Suite. When I joined my current school three years ago, they were using Microsoft Office 360, and we just switched to Google. It has always been reliable because it is really a big company. Google is the biggest tech company. 

About two years ago, I conducted an online and nationwide math contest in which students from all over Poland took part. I was using a different cloud-based test system because it was created just for these purposes, but we had a lot of trouble. The server was down, and we couldn't reach out to people. One of the advantages of Google Classroom is that Google is behind it, and they almost never have downtime. It happened only once, but it was for a short time. All Google services were out of order for an hour or something like that. I don't remember any problem other than that.

At the school where I'm working, we have six campuses. We have nearly 1,000 students. They were all in Google Classroom during the pandemic. We did not have any problems. We knew what functionalities were available, and we designed our activities based on this one. We did not have any problems. 

Anyone can create a classroom. Normally, a teacher creates the class for himself or herself. If you have your own Gmail account, you can just go to classroom.google.com and create a classroom. You can share it with other teachers. As a teacher, you can invite another teacher, and you can invite students. For each student, you can nominate a parent or a guardian. So, basically, there are three types of users available in Google Classroom.

Google Classroom became popular after COVID-19. Many people weren't even aware of it until then. Before COVID-19, I kept telling my colleagues that this is a wonderful tool, and they should give it a try. They might find it useful, but they said that they were really busy with other things, and they would take a look at it when they have some time. Now that COVID-19 is over, they are still using it and they are finding it useful. If you don't let them use it, you will be in trouble because things are different now. People will definitely keep using it because it is really useful, and people have realized that such solutions are really beneficial.

They have a lot of forums and other resources, and you can find a solution for almost everything. I often get invitations from Google about a particular product of theirs. If they want to launch something new, they inform us and they exchange ideas with us. 

I'm just a regular user, and I'm pretty satisfied with Google's approach. They really listen and add new features. We had a lot of problems at the beginning with Google meetings. Students were kicking each other out of the meetings, and they even kicked a teacher out, and in a month or so, Google embedded Meet into Google Classroom, and they added some restrictions. They're closely observing, watching, and listening to our advice.

I'm a Moodle specialist as well. I wrote my graduation thesis on Moodle as a blended learning tool. I have two or three Moodle systems installed all the time. Moodle is an open-source system, which is free of charge. It has a lot of functionalities. 

The main feature of Google Classroom is that it is a part of Google Suite, and it is integrated with other Google products. If I had to use only Google Classroom itself, I wouldn't use it. I would go for Moodle. So, being a part of the Google environment is the biggest value add of Google Classroom. It is a part of their package, which makes Google Classroom stand out, even though it has fewer features than some of the other learning management systems.

Another feature of Google Classroom that I like is that it doesn't have a lot of functionalities. It has all the functionalities that teachers need, but there are no extra things to make things confusing for teachers, whereas Moodle has a lot of functionalities, which is something I like personally. I like to have a lot of functionalities myself, and that's what I like about Moodle, but when it comes to my teachers and my colleagues, Google is much easier because everything available there is easy to understand for them. It is easy to use.

Zoom is a perfect video call solution. I have a club for our high school students for which I'm using Zoom Pro. I'm still using Google Classroom because they are different things. Google Classroom is a platform where you can put all of your material, but instead of using Google Meet, I'm using Zoom for my video teaching. I have also tried Microsoft Teams, but I don't find it to be a good system. They seem to have created it for professional companies, and then suddenly, they seem to have changed it into an educational tool. It isn't as effective as Google Classroom.

Google Classroom is in the cloud. Therefore, you don't have to do anything to host it. You only need to create a Google account. Google gives the service to educational institutions free of charge, so you only need to register with your school's domain, and they verify it. After that, just like Gmail, they're hosting the service on their own servers, and you use it. It's a 100% cloud-based solution. Google also allows some of the applications, such as Google Sheets and Google Docs, to work offline, but everything is totally cloud-based and on Google servers.

You don't need to download it. When you're signed in to your Gmail, all of the Google products are there, including Google Classroom. You just go to classroom.google.com, and that's it. When you log in with your ID, it recognizes which company you are joining from, and it shows you the classrooms that you've created as a teacher or assigned as a student. It is totally in the cloud.

We are an educational institution, and it is free of charge for us. Normally, if you are a private company, you have to pay a lot of money to get this service, but they are giving it for free to schools. 

I would definitely recommend this product, especially for K12 schools. That's because when the students eventually go to the university, at some point, they will take online lessons. There are various types of learning management systems, and some of them are more complicated, and Google Classroom is a kind of exposition. As an online solution, it is very simple and very easy. A year three, four, or five students can manage to go there and log in without any problem. So, especially for K12 schools, I would highly recommend Google Suite over Microsoft. If you are already in Google Suite, I would definitely recommend Google Classroom.

I would rate Google Classroom an eight out of ten. It is the best, but there is always room for improvement.

We used the product at our university to facilitate digital learning.

Google Classroom is simple to use. Its most valuable feature is the ability to conduct test and quiz programs.

The product's UI needs improvement. At present, it requires specific knowledge to get familiar with the platform.

I have been using Google Classroom for a year.

The system crashes sometimes. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.

Google Classroom has good scalability. Our university has approximately 1500 to 2000 users.

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. It took around 15 to 20 minutes to complete.

We can implement the product ourselves.

The product offers a yearly based license.

I rate Google Classroom a seven out of ten. I would not recommend it to others as many other better tools are available.

Our teachers use it to give us assignments. During the lockdown, they also uploaded exams so that we could answer the questions while on camera with Google Meet.

We had about 70 students use this solution in our classroom.

When a teacher uploads material, all students connected to that class will receive the same information at the same time. I have found this to be a valuable feature.

I also like that the material remains in Google Classroom until the teacher removes it.

The UI is user-friendly, and you don't have to have prior experience to use the solution.

I would like to see a master list of documents with folder names so that it is more convenient for students to know whether they have submitted a particular document. At present, you need to go to each classroom to check what you have submitted.

I've been using Google Classroom for more than two years.

It's a stable solution.

The initial setup was straightforward for me as a student using the solution. I was able to understand how to use it in about an hour.

I would rate Google Classroom at eight on a scale from one to ten because it's convenient and easy to use, and you can quickly learn to use it.

Google Classroom is an online platform where people can meet together.

The most valuable feature of Google Classroom is the ability to meet people and it is online.

Google Classroom could improve by being easier to use. For example, making it functional with only a few buttons. It's difficult to know how to connect with students and make a link and share it with them. I found it difficult, and this is why I didn't continue using it. Additionally, it should be available to be downloaded to the desktop for use, similar to Zoom.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately two years.

I have 150 students in my classroom and they were using Google Classroom.

I did not use technical support.

I previously used Zoom and Microsoft Teams and I used them more than Google Classroom because they are free to use.

There are competitors that offer free solutions, making the price of Google Classroom high.

I rate Google Classroom a six out of ten.

I have used Google Classroom for online classes, such as lectures, group work, and assignments.

The most valuable feature of Google Classroom is the ability for the lecturer to put in work. Additionally, the work can be graded after completion, and there can be feedback provided through the system which has a good interface. 

Google Classroom could improve by having better integration with other platforms, such as Google Meet.

I have been using Google Classroom for approximately three years.

The stability of Google Classroom is good.

The scalability of Google Classroom has been fine in my experience.

We have approximately 13 people using this solution in my organization.

We have plans to increase our usage in the future.

I have not used the support from Google Classroom.

The initial setup of Google Classroom is straightforward. The setup consists of signing up with my Google account and a basic setup.

The solution is affordable.

I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Google Classroom ten out of ten.