Google Classroom

Absolutely awful app. almost never works. I have to use it for school and am constantly struggling to get work in because the APP WILL NOT WORK. GOOGLE PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. edit: was writing a private comment to my teacher and accidentally closed out of the window to my home screen. gone. I had to rewrite the entire thing. last night I submitted an assignment at 4pm and checked it at midnight to find that while the files had attached they had not submitted properly.

Best I've seen but not great. You can't use a GIF as your background. There is lots of information that states GIF's can be used for Classroom customization, but this has been consistently inaccurate for me. Next, although you can get an average grade, but if you are teaching multiple subjects, there is no way to distinguish, for example, a Math grade from a Social Studies grade average. You can upload videos and other tools as well as assignments. Great compatibility with various platforms.

honestly i never ever feel the need to write reviews on an app but k felt like i had to in the case. Whenever a new notification comes through it previews as “new material has been posted” or “your assignment has been graded” rather than telling me what class it is for. And when i proceed to click on the notification it just brings me to the home page, forcing me to individually check each of my 10 classes to find out which teacher posted. This update has caused me to miss out on multiple assignments, dragging my grade down. I was hoping this was just a glitch with the app and it would be back to normal in no time, but no, notifications have been coming through this way for weeks and i truly am starting to lose my patience with this app. I urge that this gets fixed quickly because teachers at my school have also been talking about it and everyone involved has found it frustrating. I can almost guarantee that if this isn’t fixed by the end of the school year, some schools will transfer over to another education app. Other than this extremely EXTREMELY annoying update this app is ok. Please fix this asap

It's good for school and stuff like that. But I feel like what would make it better is being able to pin classworks. For example: if you're trying to find a revision work that a teacher sets up but there are 35+ classworks uploaded, then it would waste time for the person to revise. But if we were able to pin classworks then it would be easier to find the work instead of going through so many of them.

The layout is easy to navigate, I have not experienced issues with performance on the platform in the past four weeks I have been using it as a student, and it’s a very convenient tool for both teachers and students. This app is only rated low because students either dislike doing classwork on a computer in general, or they do not like being assigned homework over the weekend or when they are otherwise not in school. This isn’t a good reason to rate the app low, but they will either 1. outright state they dislike school/schoolwork, or 2. write a fake review claiming it is terrible. I think this is further proven by the fact that all of the other Google apps, to my knowledge, are said to be well-made and have stellar reviews. This app absolutely does not deserve the two stars it currently has at the time of this review. I typically do not even write reviews, but I think it’s so ridiculous that this app is THIS poorly rated simply because students dislike schoolwork, so I felt compelled to write this review. TL;DR: I think this is a great app as are the other Google apps, it’s very convenient for me as a student in high-school. Students have bombed this app with negative reviews simply because they do not like schoolwork.

IK a lot of students seem to hate on this app unnecessarily (me includes), but there are some big flaws that need to be addressed. First of all, the lag. Sometimes the pages won’t load or the entire app will just shut down in my face, which prevents me from turning in work. Another thing is that when attaching files sometimes as links or straight from google drive, it won’t let you. It’ll say error and you’ll have to try creating a copy of the doc and see if that works, and if it doesn’t...whoopy-doo try again tmwr. My theory for this is that you can’t submit files that belong to someone else, even if you have editing permission. And that the app/site will occasionally just have a conniption. This is really annoying when you have group projects. Also the organization of classes on the home page leaves much to be desired. Not all of my teachers archive their classes, so it ends up cluttering my feed and I’m scrolling up and down for 5 minutes trying to find a class between the endless swamps of gray. I wish I could pick the order for them or maybe have class folders (?), where I can group similar classes together without completely hiding them away. But yeah, those are the main grievances I can recall right now since I’m in my summer days. Although this app was by no means perfect, I fear the the switch to canva in my district will be even worse. I genuinely can’t imagine that it’d turn out well.