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By on May 7, 2014 9:45 AM
Google is entering the world of "learning management systems" with the pre-release ofClassroom, designed to work with the Google Apps for Education suite currently used by 30 million students and educators.
The tool, which Google announced on its blog Tuesday, will give teachers a way to create and collect assignments, provide real-time feedback to individual students, make announcements, ask questions, and organize their folders by assignment or by student.
Below is a screen shot from Google's blog, showing an example of how a home page might look using Classroom, with assignments for each period of a school day.
The free tool, which weaves together Google Docs, Drive and Gmail, is expected to launch officially in September to K-12 schools and colleges. It will be available in 40 languages.
For now, the company is inviting educators to apply for a preview, and ed-tech companies or individual developers can sign up to learn more about integrating with Classroom.
"We've been working with more than a dozen pilot schools and universities to try out Classroom and provide feedback," wrote Zach Yeskel, product manager for Classroom and a former high school math teacher, in the blog.
Educators interested in applying for an opportunity to try out Classroom before its release can do so here.
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