"to help teachers create and organize assignments" Teachers do not want to create assignments. I created a similar thing for my wife and discovered this and a lot more
Maybe it was how you implemented it? That's also a sample size of one.
Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
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Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#12These tools and services look very promising but Google needs to be clear and transparent about what data it captures when rolling out this service. Is it tracking and recording the usage and behaviour of teachers and students who use these tools? What does it use this data for? ("we use this data to improve services" says absolutely nothing.) If you start using these tools in your student years, then continue to use…
From the article: > Google also won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom, either, in accordance with its new policy announced last week.
How can we be sure about that?
Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#13Like 95% of Google side projects, they will barely support this and it will slowly languish until killed.
I feel like I'm watching this happen in slow motion with Google Keep. I've been using it since its release for transient stuff like shopping lists, mostly because it has a nice Android lock screen widget.
It's over a year old now, and it's only received very minor updates. Still can't even reorder notes in the web interface. I won't be devastated if/when it goes away, but it just seems like a huge missed opportunity for Google to actually put some effort into this kind of application.
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#14Like 95% of Google side projects, they will barely support this and it will slowly languish until killed.
The question is, do you need a G+ account to use it? If the answer is yes then a big no thanks.
The answer seems like it will be no since they're enabling it for Apps for Education customers. For customers outside of that, I'm not sure, but even so Apps for Education is going to be the majority using this.
Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#15So, how are the student accounts handled and can I call someone when we have a problem?
[if the answer is G+ account, I don't think I can risk it given Google hate for certain types of names]
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the article: > Google also won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom, either, in accordance with its new policy announced last week.
How can we be sure about that?
I mean, I guess you can't unless you can a) see the source code yourself and b) deploy it yourself.
Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#17Like 95% of Google side projects, they will barely support this and it will slowly languish until killed.
I feel like I'm watching this happen in slow motion with Google Keep. I've been using it since its release for transient stuff like shopping lists, mostly because it has a nice Android lock screen widget. It's over a year old now, and it's only received very minor updates. Still can't even reorder notes in the web interface. I won't be devastated if/when it goes away, but it just seems like a huge missed opportunity…
You can reorder notes in the web interface by dragging them, but oddly enough you can only do this in the grid view and not the list view.
Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can we be sure about that?
I mean, I guess you can't unless you can a) see the source code yourself and b) deploy it yourself.
and " won’t even use the data that moves through the platform or display ads in Classroom"
Note the language, they say they won't use it for "ads in Classroom", but what about for other purposes?
Re: Google Debuts Classroom, An Education Platform For Teacher-Student Communication
#19I need to show this video to some teachers I know, just so I can count how many turn white seeing a room full of kids using laptops with the screens turned away from the teacher's view.
I'm guessing this will be a non-zero value.
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#20Like 95% of Google side projects, they will barely support this and it will slowly languish until killed.
I feel like I'm watching this happen in slow motion with Google Keep. I've been using it since its release for transient stuff like shopping lists, mostly because it has a nice Android lock screen widget. It's over a year old now, and it's only received very minor updates. Still can't even reorder notes in the web interface. I won't be devastated if/when it goes away, but it just seems like a huge missed opportunity…
This is exactly why I never moved from Evernote, and I continue to give them $45/year.
No Google! I will not fall for you again!