Google Classroom gets offline mode and other tweaks

February 19, 2021 Bary Howards

Google Classroom will receive a number of useful enhancements to help millions of students, teachers and parents. There has been a huge interest in this application over the last year, and Google is responding to user input by modifying many features to help simplify the home education that is experiencing a boom around the world. How will offline mode work in Google Classroom?

The number of Google Classroom users has grown from giant to 40 million in the last year 150 million. Students all over the world do not have access to schools, so logically the teaching has moved to the online environment. Google has announced that this year it will improve the Android application by ability to work with intermittent or no connection at all. Students will be able to start their homework, view new assignments, open disk attachments, and write assignments in Google Docs without an Internet connection.

The Android app Google Classroom in addition to the offline mode feature also offers the option combine photos of captured tasks into a single document, crop or rotate captured images, and adjust brightness. Teachers should also have a simpler job. They will have the opportunity to look at the work of students and their grades at the same time. Teachers will also have a better overview of pupil activity. They will have the opportunity to see how the student interacts with Google Classroom. There are also rich options in preparation for all platforms text formatting. Further improvements are said to be in preparation for this year. Unfortunately, we do not yet know the exact date when the new functions will reach teachers and students.