There can be "classrooms" anywhere. At TheAnywhereSchool event held on the Internet earlier, ZachYeskel, product manager of GoogleforEducation with teacher background, revealed that under the influence of this epidemic, more students will be helped to study courses through network connection, and teachers will also be more convenient to master the situation of students attending classes at home.
After opening up many functions originally provided only by GSuite subscription service to ordinary users, Google recently began to release a number of updates to the education version of GSuite service, making it easier for students to continue their studies at home through the Internet. At the same time, teachers can also teach in an online virtual way, and please ensure that students attend classes.
In this update, Google expects to add up to 49 people to the educational version of GoogleMeet in September and increase the display size. At the same time, it will also integrate Jamboard digital whiteboard, so that teachers and students can interact and collaborate through online connection.
In addition, this update also increases the control right that the meeting host can automatically become the first participant in each meeting and ensure that the meeting can be ended. In addition, the text chat during the meeting can also be banned, so that teachers can fully control the classroom process through GoogleMeet, and avoid the phenomenon that students get the control of the meeting and make trouble.
It is expected that in June 5438+00, user-defined background and background blur function will be provided to ensure the privacy in the classroom through GoogleMeet service. For users of GSuiteEnterprise education edition, group discussion area and attendance record function will be introduced to let teachers further ensure the interaction and participation of students in the classroom.
Before the end of this year, all users will be provided with the function of raising their hands to ask questions, and online question-and-answer and voting functions will be launched for users of GSuiteEnterprise Education Edition, and a new temporary recording function will be provided so that all users of Education Edition can record classroom content through this function.
At the same time, in the GoogleClassroom section, a to-do list function is added to the course page, which is convenient for students to confirm the next item, the previous item or the missing item, and can also confirm the grading result given by the teacher. Teachers can also share the course contents with students through online links, so that students can quickly participate in the course by clicking the links, and can confirm whether the students' report assignments are plagiarized through content comparison.
As for the language part, GoogleClassroom will add 65,438+00 languages, bringing the total number of supported languages to 54, while the report project will add Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Swedish, Indonesian and Italian.
In view of the concentration of students in the distance classroom, Google also provided the data report content of DataStudio in this update, so that teachers can confirm the students' class situation through data analysis such as online interaction of students.
As for whether students attend classes online on time at home, Google emphasizes that parents or guardians can grasp the learning status of students through the previously launched FamilyLink function. At the same time, in addition to providing many tools and resources to make teachers more familiar with these services used to assist online teaching, they also provide tools to make parents or guardians familiar with students' learning status at home.
ZachYeskel said that it is really a challenge for teachers and students to teach through distance learning. For example, how can teachers confirm students' class status to ensure the quality of teaching, whether students can learn the course content more conveniently through the internet, and how can parents and guardians ensure that their children can attend classes safely at home? In fact, Google has made a lot of efforts before and after. Next, we will continue to add more functions to GoogleforEducation service, so that students can study at home more easily and teachers can teach courses more efficiently, thus achieving the goal of learning everywhere in the post-epidemic era.
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