In this 21st century, E Teaching-Learning is an important aspect of the Education Process. There are many tools used of E Teaching-Learning. One of them is Google Classroom App provided by GOOGLE. Google Classroom is easy to use as it provides a ready-made Platform to create and use an online Google Classroom. The main features of Google Classroom are as follows:
To Create a Google Classroom: It is easy to create a new Google Classroom by Google Classroom App.
To Invite/Join the Students: The process of adding/joining the students into the classroom is also easy. The students can be invited by entering their email IDs or they can join directly just by entering the respective Class-codes.
To Invite the Co-Teachers: Different teachers can also be invited to a Google Classroom as Co-teachers to discuss different topics or the same topic.
To Create the Different types of Class-work: In the section of Class-work, a teacher can create any type of file using other apps of GOOGLE like Docs, Slides, Sheets, Drawings, Forms. A teacher can also share any video, file (word, pdf, PPT, image) or link by uploading directly from his/her computer system or Google drive.
To Organize the Class-Work: In Google Classroom, a teacher can organize all his/her class-work by creating different Topics and shifting/uploading the material under appropriate Topic.
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To Assess the Students: Online Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation or Formative Evaluation is possible by creating and posting assignments, Quiz assignments & Questions through Google Classroom.
To analyze the Responses: If the students are assessed through Quiz Assignments, then it is easy to analyze each response question-wise or individually as this type of assignment is analyzed automatically by the Google App (if all the responses are fed correctly earlier while constructing the quiz.)
To Share the result: The obtained marks can be returned back to students individually. If Quiz Assignment is administered then individual mark sheet can be emailed automatically to each student.
To keep the Record: On Google Classroom, each and every activity by the teacher or any student is recorded (until or unless it is not deleted by the teacher) and can be accessed at any time. The record of Students marks in different assignments, tests are maintained systematically. The record of responses on a quiz assignment is also maintained automatically and this record can be downloaded.
Easy to handle for Students: This pre-structured ready to use platform is easy to handle for students also as its working window, tools are very simple and similar to other online tools.
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Provide space for Self-Learning: On this platform, a teacher posts his/her class-work and students can access, read, respond to that class-work at his/her own pace. This platform provides some flexibility in terms of time, speed, etc.
In Conclusion, it can be said that Google Classroom is playing an important role in formulating quality teaching-learning process through online mode and this type of tool is a need of the hour in this technological era.
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