Does Google know how to support student and teacher? Analysis and characteristics of the Google Classroom platform

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze technological solutions and evaluate the usefulness of Google’s free e-learning software. The author undertakes to indicate the advantages and disadvantages while checking the applications of the Google Classroom platform information architecture. The platform, developed since 2014, enjoys a constantly growing interest of smaller universities, and this is closely related to the dynamic development of available functionalities in the offer of one of the largest companies in the world of IT, which is Google. This allows us to assume that the aforementioned teaching platform, thanks to such a developed technological base and experience in the field of user-oriented systems, can become an important market alternative for commonly known LMS (Learning Management System) and LCMS (Learning Content Management System) solutions.