

But during the COVID-19 pandemic, Google found that many educators had begun to use Classroom as the “hub” for their online learning activities. When Google first introduced Google Classroom, it didn’t set out to create a Learning Management System (LMS), the company says.

In total, Google is promising more than 50 new features across its education products, with a focus on meeting educators’ and admins’ needs, in particular, in addition to those of the students. Google today introduced a suite of updates for its online education tools whose adoption and further development have been accelerated by the pandemic, including Google Classroom, Google Meet and the next generation of G Suite for Education, now rebranded as Google Workspace for Education.
