As part of yesterday's Teacher's Appreciation Day, Google announced a preview of the new, free tool -
Google Classroom as a product in
Google Apps for Education. This tool can help teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and communicate with their classes with ease.
According to Google, teachers can:
Create and collect assignments: Classroom weaves together Google Docs, Drive and Gmail to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly. They can quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback to individual students.
Improve class communications: Teachers can make announcements, ask questions and comment with students in real time—improving communication inside and outside of class.
Stay organized: Classroom automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student. Students can easily see what’s due on their Assignments page.
