Google Classroom is supposed to make school easier, but honestly, it falls short in a lot of ways. The layout is messy and unorganized—the stream just dumps everything in a long list, making it hard to find older assignments or important posts. There's no proper dashboard that shows all assignments from all classes in one clean view, which leads to confusion and missed deadlines. Notifications are hit or miss—sometimes you get them, sometimes you don’t. For teachers, the grading system is too basic with limited feedback options, no real analytics, and barely any customization. Managing large classes becomes overwhelming fast. And for parents, the access is basically useless—they only get vague email summaries, no real insight into grades or progress. There’s also no built-in chat feature, so students can’t easily ask questions or get help. It feels more like a collection of half-finished features than a fully thought-out platform. Google Classroom has potential, but right now, it feels clunky, limited, and outdated for something that’s used by millions of students.

IK a lot of students seem to hate on this app unnecessarily (me includes), but there are some big flaws that need to be addressed. First of all, the lag. Sometimes the pages won’t load or the entire app will just shut down in my face, which prevents me from turning in work. Another thing is that when attaching files sometimes as links or straight from google drive, it won’t let you. It’ll say error and you’ll have to try creating a copy of the doc and see if that works, and if it doesn’t...whoopy-doo try again tmwr. My theory for this is that you can’t submit files that belong to someone else, even if you have editing permission. And that the app/site will occasionally just have a conniption. This is really annoying when you have group projects. Also the organization of classes on the home page leaves much to be desired. Not all of my teachers archive their classes, so it ends up cluttering my feed and I’m scrolling up and down for 5 minutes trying to find a class between the endless swamps of gray. I wish I could pick the order for them or maybe have class folders (?), where I can group similar classes together without completely hiding them away. But yeah, those are the main grievances I can recall right now since I’m in my summer days.Although this app was by no means perfect, I fear the the switch to canva in my district will be even worse. I genuinely can’t imagine that it’d turn out well.

The layout is easy to navigate, I have not experienced issues with performance on the platform in the past four weeks I have been using it as a student, and it’s a very convenient tool for both teachers and students. This app is only rated low because students either dislike doing classwork on a computer in general, or they do not like being assigned homework over the weekend or when they are otherwise not in school. This isn’t a good reason to rate the app low, but they will either 1. outright state they dislike school/schoolwork, or 2. write a fake review claiming it is terrible. I think this is further proven by the fact that all of the other Google apps, to my knowledge, are said to be well-made and have stellar reviews. This app absolutely does not deserve the two stars it currently has at the time of this review. I typically do not even write reviews, but I think it’s so ridiculous that this app is THIS poorly rated simply because students dislike schoolwork, so I felt compelled to write this review.TL;DR: I think this is a great app as are the other Google apps, it’s very convenient for me as a student in high-school. Students have bombed this app with negative reviews simply because they do not like schoolwork.

Okay, so I’ve been using google classroom for 2 years now, and it has never been a problem! So ignore all of the one star reviews that say “it gives me suicidal thoughts, or “google classroom walked up with a knife and killed me” or “I’ve gotten spanks for not finishing assignments”, it’s a good app overall and it does not deserve the low score of 1.7, I was reading one of the other reviews and it said”it doesn’t deserve a high score of 1.7” so those kids that don’t want google classroom, just do your assignments, if you didn’t have google classroom, your life would be so much harder, the only thing I dislike is that I can’t find some stuff my teacher assigns me, like in march my teacher assigned me a document of books I need to read, but in April when I look for it, I have to go down and stop right at the one, I just think we need a search bar, and then the app would be perfectly fine. So whoever programs this stuff, add a search bar and ignore all of these fake reviews that say things that are so fake. And remember people do hard work just to make YOUR life easier. So Instead of hating on this app be thankful that you have it, I know I already said this, but IT MAKES YOUR LIFE SO MUCH EASIER.