Google Classroom Educational Services 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

4 Reviews

Educational ServicesPrimary/Secondary Education2Education Management2

Google Classroom works great in a 1-to-1 technology school

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 24, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At my organization we use Google Classroom as the main platform for all classes. All teachers use it and our students love it because they have one-to-one technology and it replaces the old school worksheets and agenda books they are used to (and hated.) It allows us to hyperlink websites, create documents, organize student submissions and keep track of deadlines.

Pros

Hyperlinks: Instead of asking kids to type in long urls, we can hyperlink websites right into their document. This cuts down on time and saves us from lots of possible confusion/mistakes.
Calendar function: This function helps kids visually keep track of due dates for all their assignments.
Make a copy: I love the GC makes a copy for each student instead of asking them to do it themselves, this way all the naming protocols are the same and documents can be found easily.

Cons

Parent Portal: So many of my parents request parent access but at this time I can only tell them to sign in under their child's account.
Tracking more than completion: As students become familiar with classroom they realize they can submit work without doing it, I would love a feature that checks for edits or work completion before allowing submission.
Edit posted assignments: It is hard to make edits to documents once you have posted the assignments.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom (GC) is not the best for math because the keyboard hasn't caught up yet and the Google doc picture function is not easy to use. GC is best for research based classes because the internet (and links) are easily accessible.

Bailey Lowenthal

Founding School Counselor in Human Resources at DCI - District of Columbia International School (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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Google Classroom, LMS prep

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 1, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Classroom was selected as an option for web-based office productivity support. It was used in the middle school environment as a classroom management solution. Assignments were posted for students, forms were used for quiz assessments.

Pros

Prepares students for college level LMS interfaces.
Office productivity tools are a great alternative to MS Office.
Media add-ins, and classroom webspace.

Cons

iPad app struggles at times.
Can be overwhelming for those transitioning students.
Ownership of assignments once distributed to students.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's great for classrooms or schools that are considered to be inclusive. It allows for students to have more freedom /opportunities to meet requirements of an assignment. However, I wouldn't rely on it too much as an assessment tool. It doesn't manage quizes like a true LMS.

Trent Slaton

Instructional Technology Support in Information Technology at Clayton State University (Education Management, 51-200 employees)

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3 years of experience

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Google Classroom = Stress Free Teacher Life!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Classroom is being used within the Affton Schools as one of two learning management systems available to the teachers. My building, the middle school, predominately focuses on using Google Classroom to post, turn in and grade assignments. I utilize it as a means to organize the daily posted math assignments and to post writing activities for my social studies classes. It makes sharing resources with students a breeze.

Pros

I can organize individual assignments in a stream, similar to Facebook, and pin the assignments that are a priority to the top of this stream.
It eliminates the, "I lost my homework" statements from students. They will always have the assignment, whether it is an essay, workhseet, documents to view, images, videos, etc.
Google Classroom allows for an easy stream of communication about an assignment between the teacher and the students. I create a master assignment that I then push out to all students in Google Classroom. This allows me to pop into their work and see their progress and make comments as they are progressing.

Cons

Google Classroom would be greately improved if a drop down menu was added that allowed assignments to be grouped under teacher created Units. Currently assignements are dispalyed in one long chronological stream.
Google Classroom works great on a computer but the iPad app has missing functionality. For example, you can not sort students alphabetically on the iPad like you can on a computer.
Currently, Google Classroom only shows the assignment as submitted late in the assignment feed. It would be greatly improved if it also included the date submitted.

Likelihood to Recommend

I absolutely love Google Classroom as a learning management system for my history classes. I no longer have to try and interpret the poor handwriting of some of my students. For math, I have found that it is most useful for posting homework but I do not like having my students scan in or submit math work to me online.

Jennifer DeSalme

8th grade PeeAlgebra and History Teacher in Professional Services at Affton School District (Primary/Secondary Education, 201-500 employees)

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1 year of experience

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Going Google - Drive or Classroom

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 15, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Google Classroom is being used on a regular basis by most of the teachers in my building. It's a great way to share documents / readings / activities with students without printing the items. Students work in Google and submit their work back to the teacher using Google Classroom. It really does help the students find and work on documents. It does have one HUGE drawback. It won't let you share a folder with the students, only single documents.

Many students have trouble staying organized and teachers used to be able to share a folder in Google Drive and have the students make their own copy. This kept all the documents for a unit of study in one location. It seems that recently Google Drive has removed that ability. It seems now that in Google Drive the students can see the folder, but can no longer easily make their own copy.

Now that teachers can only share one document at a time whether in Drive or Classroom, it seems we might as well use Google Classroom to share and then try to help students with the resulting mayhem on the Drive side as they organize their documents.

Pros

Google Classroom allows you to easily see who has turned in work.
Google Classroom allows you to quickly access and comment on documents.
Google Classroom allows you to easily locate a document, see what students are working on and give comments in real time.

Cons

Google Classroom should really allow users to upload entire folders of work, not just single documents.
With younger users, the ability to change font / size / color in the directions would be quite helpful.

Likelihood to Recommend

Google Classroom with its new updates allows you to ask the class a question AND require that each student respond BEFORE they can see the other class responses. This is a wonderful improvement that will be used often in my class.

It might not be the best way to go if you are trying to share 6 documents for a unit of study. Students will need to then go to their drive and gather the documents into a single folder.

Emily Phelan

Classroom Teacher at Fairfax County Public Schools (Primary/Secondary Education, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience