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Google Classroom app on a smartphone. (Shutterstock/File)
L
ast month, Google decided to allow users without a G Suite for Education account to join Google Classroom classes, provided they had their own personal Google account.
Google has gone a step further and has opened up the ability to create and organize a Google Classroom. The web-based platform will now allow educators with Google accounts to set up and manage courses, for both in-person and online remote education classes.
“Starting today, users can do more than join classes—they can create them, too,” read a post on Google’s blog announcing the new feature.
Read also: Apple to offer classes at stores
The post goes on, and in a suggestion of what the update can be used for, recommends, “running school programs.” It continues, “Linda Scarth, an elementary school STEM teacher, used Classroom in a Girl Scouts robotics club. […] Scarth was inspired to use Classroom when her group found it hard to share ideas and YouTube videos over email.”
“We have limited space available for our group meetings, but we have many people interested in our activities. Google Classroom allows us to enroll participants who can easily access all the same resources we use in our meetings and get in touch with us and other group members,” says Google Classroom user, Khin Baptista, as quoted on the blog. (sul/kes)
