Google Classroom has seen an exponential increase in the last year: it has gone from 40 million to 150 million over the course of 2020, obviously given the pandemic that forced many young people to study from home. BigG is thinking about how to renew its app and has announced what will be the next news , which will see the light during the course of 2021 .
The most important is certainly the possibility of working offline or in any case with very slow connections : it will in fact be possible to start carrying out an activity even without being connected to the network, as well as open attachments from Drive and write a document on Google Docs . A new feature is also coming that allows you to scan pages with your smartphone, in order to send the teacher a better version of the paper. Both of these new features will be available only for the Android app .
The administrators will then see many statistics regarding how students approach the platform and will also be able to install software EdTech , to be added to the assigned activities to the students. Finally, it will be possible to use text formatting tools , such as bold, italic, underline and bulleted list, in the fields relating to posts and activities , this on web, iOS and Android app .
There are no precise dates for the release of these news: Google limited itself to saying “during the year” . In any case, it is hoped that they can arrive as soon as possible, in order to guarantee a better experience of using the app to the many students who use it every day.
