Fun! Google Classroom Will Be Used Offline

Google Classroom can be used offline (York Public)

JAKARTA - During this pandemic, teaching and learning activities did not take place as they should. Does not allow meetings between teachers and students in the classroom. The whole process of teaching and learning activities has shifted to a new method, namely online.

Google Classroom is often the choice for learning virtually. Automatically this application has a very high increase in users. Therefore, Google has added features to its application such as offline mode.

Through this mode, users can access a number of data in Google Classroom without having to use the internet. The presence of this feature makes it easier for users with limited internet data packages and don't have to bother spending money to buy data packages.

The plan, Google will launch this offline feature at the end of 2021. In this offline mode, students can access assignments given by the teacher, open files in Drive, and do assignments in Google Docs, as reported by the official Google blog post.

"We updated the Google Classroom application on Android to work offline or work with recurring connections," said Google in a blog post.

Not only offline mode, Google plans to add other interesting features that make it easier for students to study anywhere and anytime. One of them is a feature that can combine photos of tasks into one document.

Other features will also be present such as crop or image crop features, lighting settings and the like. It's not only students who are facilitated by new features. Teachers will also be able to check the assignments that have been done by their students easily and efficiently. The teacher can also give feedback to students.

At the end of 2021, Google is also rumored to be optimizing the assessment features in Google Classroom.

"Currently, more and more teachers are using cellphones to provide assessments or input while on the move," said Google.

Not only that, Google can enrich text formatting, which is like the one in Microsoft Word. Some of these formats include bold, italic, underline and bullet text. Until now, the Google Classroom application users have reached 150 million users in various parts of the world.