The online J-Classroom platform has three major functions including resources co-building and sharing, data recording and analyzing, cooperating and innovating between teachers and students.
The PTs were asked to reflect and connect the theories they read about during the first 5 weeks of class to their instruction during tutoring the last 10 weeks of class via focused reflections on the online classroom platform.
The Classroom platform as a whole also received a number of other upgrades which, in some cases, will arrive over the next few weeks, including the ability to whitelist domains across other Google Apps for Education domains, effectively allowing students, teachers and staff to work together in Drive and Classroom from different schools.
The company's own Google for Education site claims 50 million users of Google Apps for education to-date, 10 million teachers and students using its cloud-based Google Classroom platform to create groups and distribute assignments and feedback online, and manages 280 Google Educator Groups around the world, to help local educators connect with and learn from each other.
The startup offered a classroom collaboration platform where teachers could share resources and assignments with students and could discuss course topics, among other things.
Google launched a couple of updates to its Classroom educational platform today that will make life a little bit easier for teachers as they get ready for the next school year.
The products are devices (Chromebook), productivity tools (Drive, Gmail, Calendar, etc)., Classroom (course management platform).
Plus, Google has introduced its own add-on for Classroom, its educational platform.
Beside for integration in classroom teaching, the platform can be individually used by students for targeted learning and filling of knowledge gaps.
This morning, the company launched a free international community site dubbed Skype in the Classroom, an online platform designed to help teachers find each other and relevant projects according to search criteria such as the age groups they teach, location and subjects of interest.
