{"id":208564,"date":"2017-04-28T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=208564"},"modified":"2017-04-28T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T06:43:32","slug":"google-classroom-open-to-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/208564-google-classroom-open-to-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Classroom open to all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google account holders can now create lessons in Google Classroom, the company\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/topics\/education\/google-classroom-outside-classroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/classroom.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Google Classroom<\/strong><\/a> lets\u00a0teachers and learners teach or attend classes, manage assignments, and collaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Google listed several case studies of how the service was used during its pilot phase, including virtual adult education classes in graphic design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tony Vincent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tonyvincent\/status\/846318385004777473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>tweeted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0an invitation for a free online class teaching graphic design with Google Drawings. He enrolled 75 educators across the US, Australia, Greece, and South Africa,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>For six weeks,\u00a0Vincent posted instructional videos to Classroom. Students then had a week to post their assignments and get feedback from Vincent and other students.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent&#8217;s classes are an example of the type of lessons created with Google Classroom.<\/p>\n<p>Those testing the software also created\u00a0classes for adult education, hobbies, and after-school programmes, said Google.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/208560-google-and-facebook-fell-for-a-100-million-scam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google and Facebook fell for a $100-million scam<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google account holders can now create lessons in Google Classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":148609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,42868],"class_list":["post-208564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-google-classroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208564"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208582,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208564\/revisions\/208582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}