Class Tools
Google released updates to their existing tools all the time, but it is not often that Google releases a brand new tool. However, they just did that with Class Tools. Built specifically for educators and schools, Class Tools provides a simple way for teachers to manage workflow, hand work to their students, and maintain some degree of control over how the students interact with that work. It's no surprise that keeping (some) students on task can be challenging, and Class Tools aims to meet this need with a Focus Mode that locks students into only those things that the teacher has asked them to work on. The teacher selects the students, or groups of students, selects the work they want done, and then pushes that to student devices for a specified period of time. Let's just talk about the devices aspect. One of the requirements for Class Tools is that both teachers and students need to be on a managed Chromebook, that is, a Chromebook enrolled into the school domain. Fo...