What is Google Classroom? Wikipedia says: “Google Classroom is a free blended learning platform developed by Google for educational institutions that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students. As of 2021, approximately 150 million users use Google Classroom.”

What is Blended learning? Wikipedia says: “Blended learning, also known as technology-mediated instruction, web-enhanced instruction, or mixed-mode instruction, is an approach to education that combines online educational materials and opportunities for interaction online with physical place-based classroom methods.”

Wikipedia, regarding Google Classroom, goes on to say: “Google Classroom uses a variety of proprietary user applications (Google Applications for Education) with the goal of managing student and teacher communication. Students can be invited to join a class through a private code or be imported automatically from a school domain. Each class creates a separate folder in the respective user’s Google Drive, where the student can submit work to be graded by a teacher. Teachers can monitor each student’s progress by reviewing the revision history of a document, and, after being graded, teachers can return work along with comments and grades.”

Google Classroom has undergone a series of updates and changes since its original release in May 2014.