Google Classroom Reviews & Insights

Score8.2 out of 10

274 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Google Classroom are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Streamlined Assignment Management: Users have praised the efficient grading and feedback processes in Google Classroom, thanks to its streamlined assignment management feature that simplifies tasks for educators. The system's organization of assignments and submissions has been noted as a time-saving benefit by many users.

Clean User Interface: Many reviewers find the clean and simple user interface of Google Classroom to be a key factor in enhancing productivity, especially for those who are not tech-savvy. The intuitive design contributes to a positive user experience, allowing for easy navigation and minimal learning curve.

Effective Collaboration Tools: The collaboration and communication features within Google Classroom are commended by users for facilitating seamless interaction between students and teachers, fostering a conducive learning environment where sharing resources and engaging in discussions is effortless.

Google Classroom Reviews

41 Reviews

Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees)

Must have for K12 Classroom

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

July 8, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Use nearly daily in my classroom for in class assignments and hybrid learning. Rather than having to maintain copies of notes and extra assignments for absent students. Being linked with out LMS also makes grading super easy as I can comment and grade assignments right in Classroom and migrate grades into our system with one click.

Pros

Comments on student work.
Sharing assignments with students
Migrating grades to school system

Cons

Doesn't integrate will with non Google file types.
Work is lost of student leaves class.
Cannot edit share settings after posting assignment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for k-12 applications, but may not be robust enough for some post-secondary applications that may require more content specific programs. When a specific program is needed and that program is not made by Google it likely won't work on classroom and will simply have a link to the other website.

Andrew Defever

Teacher at Big Rapids Public Schools (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Great Collaboration, Easy and Must have product for Education Sector Folks.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 20, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The first time, our teachers introduced Google Classroom. The easy-to-use and clean UI makes the software more usable. We used to run our classes through Google Classroom. It allows you to conduct the class on time, and the reminder feature is just awesome. - We use the product to track the syllabus and classes. - The integration with Google Products is seamless. Nothing to worry about or switch to other apps. - Get notifications on new assignments or get marking for those assignments. - Integration with Calendar allows the user never to forget any deadline or timetable.

Pros

Clean and Simple User Interface makes the productivity fast.
Has built-in third-party apps as well as a huge library of Google built-in plugins like plagiarism checker.
Good Multi Device support.
Sharing and Collaboration between the students and teachers is good.

Cons

The content management of the Classroom is not that good. The sub-section for notes, syllabus, or discussion is missing.
It doesn't have parental control feature.
It converts the excel output into a normal file. All the formulas and pivots got changed into plain text.

Likelihood to Recommend

- During the pandemic, the college needs a fast and easy solution to conduct Google Classroom. The integration with Google Accounts and Google Meet allows the university to run and access the Classroom on a large scale. - The teacher wants to conduct some exams in third-party software like Moodle. But we have not found any plugin for this famous open-source learning platform. The exam system in Google Classroom is so poor that it doesn't even fully screen the test when students are writing their exams.

Amit Sanpui

Marketing Executive in Marketing at MarketsandMarkets™ (Market Research, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google Classroom - A great tool for young learners

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

September 27, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Classroom in our junior school to manage assignment tracking and collaboration between students in class.
Our teachers will post assignments, to be completed by students, and return work with feedback.
Teachers are able to manage student progress by being linked to a shared document so they can see, in real time, how students are progressing their work in class.

Pros

Collaboration
Simple to use for tech novices
Notifications

Cons

export of data to a central database
requires student interaction to join classes
parent access could be better

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom is great for junior classrooms where students need to do simple tasks that a teacher needs to manage. Setting up classes is simple and manageable, by teachers, with little assistance needed from ICT. Students can navigate on any device type(Computer, tablet etc.). It would be great if feedback could be linked back to a schools central database to save double handling. Differentiating work types would also be a welcome addition to the Google Classroom toolset.

Verified User

Supervisor in Information Technology (Education Management company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Best Virtual Classroom Tool

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 22, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Google Classroom as a user. My college started in 2020, but because of the covid-19 pandemic, I was not able to take classes on campus. Then we started using Google Classroom as a virtual classroom for our college classes. Google Classroom is one of the best virtual classroom tools in the market.

Pros

It has an option "to-do list", I personally like this option because it shows us which assignments are given and when we have to submit them.
Google Classroom sends us emails all the time when our teachers update or add anything to the classroom.
It has mobile application so that we can use it at our comfort.
We can use all of the tools Google has with Google Classroom. For example- we can use Google Docs, Google Sheet, Google Form, Google Drive, etc with ease in Google Classroom.
There is another option as plagiarism checker which really help in the assignment.

Cons

Option "to-do list" takes a bit of time to refresh in the mobile application to show our given assignment.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom is best suited for a virtual classroom. It is one of the best tools out there and we can use the Google Ecosystem (Google tools) with it at an ease to help and make learning better. Schools, colleges, and even personal tutors can use Google Classroom for online classes. If you are not sure about the paid version of Google Classroom you can even use its free version and check if it is best suited for you are not.

Verified User

Professional in Marketing (Marketing & Advertising company, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Online Classes with code protection

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 18, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Classroom is very easy e-learning platform. Last year in COVID-19 lockdown I used this application for my nephew to attend his online school classes. You can easily move between all the lectures you have, whether you are using the application as teacher or student without any problems. Lectures will keep you informed of news about the limit and schedule you have and will always remind you of updates received. Mail alert makes it very easy for users if something new updates in application.

Pros

Easy interface which every one can understand easily
Everyone has a code for attending lectures
Keeps me informed about the news and schedule of lectures
Mail alert system for any new updates in application

Cons

Video streaming problem
Voice lacking problem
Using application through mobile hangs little bit
Not all features are supported on mobile applications

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom's interface is very easy and understandable. You can find your classmates, assignments in the classrooms, and Stream where you can ask questions or talk to teachers and classmates. Sharing and downloading files is made very easy through this application. Code-protected classes secure both students and teachers; good e-learning platform.

Syed Tauqeer Haider Rizvi

Software Data Analyst | Pharmabridge in Information Technology at Softronic Systems (Pvt) Limited (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Go with Google Classroom!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

May 12, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We worked with the staff and teachers to implement Google Classroom at the start of the 2020-21 school year as a solution to the new remote learning environment. Students and parents needed an organized, engaging digital environment that behaved predictably and is easy to navigate.

Pros

Organizing discussion threads
Easily accessible tabs for learning material categories
Customizable “fun” interface

Cons

We would like to see more time-related progress tracking
Young students still need an adult to read tabs to them—an option for a fully visual interface would be nice

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom is a great solution for remote learning when school budgets don’t allow for more robust platform purchases, such as BlackBoard. It’s free! It’s customizable, but you’ll need to get a small group of users/teachers trained up on all the nuances so they can be your Champion group and help the other teachers. Love the ability to set slides as landing pages for a fun classroom picture. Kids enjoy the autonomy they have but struggle with remembering to complete all assignments if they don’t have more direct supervision. Lots of integration with other tools like Kira to allow for writing exercises and assignment submission. It’s a great stop-gap for schools not intending to remain in a remote setting, a permanent solution for organizations with low budgets that are fully remote, but not my first choice if you have a software budget and are operating fully remote at all times.

Gabrielle Wayman

PTA Board of Directors at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary PTA (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google Classroom for every classroom

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 20, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our district is currently using Google Classroom as an educational platform for face-to-face learning, hybrid learning, and distance learning. Google Classroom is an easy-to-use way to push assignments to students and record grades. Teachers are able to assign multiple avenues of learning in one spot for the students to access. Google Classroom not only gives you realtime data, keeps up with missing assignments, and grades assignments, but it also gives you a private spot to conference with the students about lessons and let the students collaborate with each other other on assignments.

Pros

Organizes information by topics for user-friendly access
Grade assignments for students, giving them instant feedback
Works with so many other educational websites, making linking assignments easy!

Cons

Checklist within the topics for the teacher to mark off assignments the students have finished
Automatic notice to students when they have missing work or assignments due
Teacher dashboard for a quick glance at the week or day (grades, assignments, class progress, etc.)

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom is best suited in any class situation! I have taught hybrid, face-to-face, and distance this year and used Google Classroom every step of the way! It has been very easy for my middle/upper elementary students to get used to using daily. I would definitely think with practice that even the very young grades could use it daily.

Verified User

Professional (Education Management company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Shhhh... Listen! Do You Hear The Sound Of Survey On Google Classroom?

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 11, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Classroom is used as a content management system in our institution, since our institution is an engineering college that carves professionals, we use this application for helping our students to attend online classes with the help of Google Meet which is integrated in Google Classroom. With the help of this platform we deliver notes, provide them assignments, conduct online tests, etc. Our college has five departments, and for every subjects in each department we are keeping different Google Classrooms.

Pros

If we register Google Classroom with our organization's mail ID we can use the integrated Google Meet for conducting online meetings, online classes, etc, but if we are using our personal mail ID for creating a classroom then we need G-Suite for setting up Google Meet.
We can perform different online classwork like assignments, quizzes, and also we can conduct online exams with a proper grading system.
Each of the classrooms created will be associated with a separate class code, we can simply share this class code to the students and with the help of this code they can easily join our class. Another method is we can add students by manually entering their mail ID.

Cons

The default integration of Google Meet is absent if we are creating the classroom using our personal mail ID, and for integration we need G-Suite and we need to pay for it.
The UI could be little more appealing, since the existing platform uses very simple and basic UI.
Uninterrupted internet connection is required for proper working.

Likelihood to Recommend

If we are considering an educational institution, Google Classroom could be a perfect choice as a content management system. It is not required to pay for using this platform since it is a free service given by Google for educational systems. It is not suited as a human resource management systems (HRMS), since it is purely built as an LMS/CMS.

Rahul Ajithkumar

Assistant Professor in Professional Services at Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Peermade (Education Management, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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Google Classroom in the Classroom

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 23, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Classroom every day in the classroom and it has become increasingly more helpful and important now that we must do digital learning from home. It makes assigning, correcting and commenting on work so much easier. It also allows sharing messages to one, or multiple classes, which is helpful right now as well.

Pros

Communicating with students
Correcting work
Grading

Cons

Maybe update the look of it, appears a little old.
I can’t make a document for everyone after I have posted it so I have to delete it and start over.
Can be glitchy at times.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is well suited for individualized learning, small classes, big classes, and everything in between. It is easy to use and the kids enjoy it. I appreciate that I can do discussion and assign projects to certain students and not others. I also enjoy that I am able to access all my drive documents from this one site and add them and distribute them to my students at one time.

Verified User

Employee (Education Management company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Great for getting information out.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 12, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Google Classroom in our faculty to share notes with students who are absent and to ensure that official notifications of assessment tasks are delivered to students simultaneously, even if they are not present to receive hard copies due to illness or other factors affecting their attendance. The main problem it solves for me is a sure guarantee that students have access to resources when they need them.

Pros

It allows me to share files with all of my students regardless of their location.
It notifies my students via email when I share a resource or file with them.
It allows me to verify the time and date of the release of information.

Cons

I don't seem to get email notification when my students post into the classroom.
The ability to record voice and/or video messages easily and directly into Google classroom would be great. I would love to be able to stream and store my lessons in Google Classroom!

Likelihood to Recommend

It's ideal for sharing resources with students. It is less appropriate for classes that need intensive explicit teaching of concepts because it lacks a convenient way to record video.

David Obeid

Classroom Teacher at Kooringal High School (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Shhhh... Listen! Do You Hear The Sound Of Survey On Google Classroom?

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 11, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

If we register Google Classroom with our organization's mail ID we can use the integrated Google Meet for conducting online meetings, online classes, etc, but if we are using our personal mail ID for creating a classroom then we need G-Suite for setting up Google Meet.
We can perform different online classwork like assignments, quizzes, and also we can conduct online exams with a proper grading system.
Each of the classrooms created will be associated with a separate class code, we can simply share this class code to the students and with the help of this code they can easily join our class. Another method is we can add students by manually entering their mail ID.

Cons

The default integration of Google Meet is absent if we are creating the classroom using our personal mail ID, and for integration we need G-Suite and we need to pay for it.
The UI could be little more appealing, since the existing platform uses very simple and basic UI.
Uninterrupted internet connection is required for proper working.

Likelihood to Recommend

Rahul Ajithkumar

Assistant Professor in Professional Services at Mar Baselios Christian College of Engineering and Technology, Peermade (Education Management, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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