New tools in Google Classroom for the return to school year

Google is already preparing for back to school, especially virtual classes. The company has already announced improvements in its two main tools focused on education, Google Meet and Google Classroom. Both had a lot of prominence at the end of the school year, and it is expected that with the next start of classes it will increase, both becoming one of the real alternatives to continue with online education.

Virtual classroom on your own computer

One of the great advantages that Google Classroom offers, both to students and teachers, including parents, is the possibility of having a safe environment at hand, without running any type of risk and the possibility of following the course normally. normal class rhythm.
For these reasons, it is expected that this school year 2020-2021, the number of users who use this tool will triple and therefore it is necessary to adapt to all age ranges. Google wants everything to focus on making its usability easier, facilitating their learning and accessibility to the little ones and for this reason it has made it much easier to follow the lessons and educational tasks. They will include in the Classes tab a list of tasks, where the student will find all the tasks they have and thus can easily see in a single glance those that they have already completed and those that are still pending. Teachers for their part will have the same but with the exercises uploaded and in the absence of review.
For their part, teachers have at their disposal a series of options to send to their students, such as links to private classes and functions to detect those texts that are copied from others and metrics to know the level of monitoring of the classes .

Create an account on Google Classroom

Google Classroom has become one of the first options chosen by teachers, this is due to the ease with which classes can be created and the way in which tasks and activities can be assigned. Another of its advantages is that it encourages interaction between both parties in real time, facilitating the feedback process by sharing all kinds of multimedia files and documents, which will be stored in the Google Drive cloud, which will ensure that they are not lost and all participants have access to them, there will no longer be excuses for forgetting.
To be able to carry out and witness your classes, you will have to have them linked to a Google account that will serve as the identification of each of the users, this is essential, without it you will not be able to enter and you will not need to create a specific one for it, with which you have one will suffice.
One of its greatest advantages is that it is a totally free service, with which you can combine your face-to-face classes or all those that are totally remote.
The tool allows you to selectively send a certain file, without the need for it to reach the entire class if we don't want to, and to have all the files arranged in folders that are automatically created by creating an organizational structure of the resources we want to have in our classes.
To use it is as simple as entering their website, classroom.google.com or accessing directly through its icon in your Google account, once inside you just have to select the button to sign up for a class or it even gives you the possibility to create one yourself. If the option you have chosen has been to sign up for one already created, you will have to enter the specific URL of that class, if on the contrary you are creating one, a screen will appear in which you will fill in all the data that it requires. As a section, choose the subject and specify a classroom.
Once created you will have access to the main panel of the classroom, where you will find a board with the summary of everything, from here you will have control of everything that happens in your class, add your students and teachers through your email and start your online classes. In the People tab you will see all those that you have added and you can delete, send emails or even silence those students, and teachers, very heavy.