How Google Apps Improves Learning?

According to students the best things about Google Apps are:

• Easy to use
• Easy to work on documents both at home and school
• Same interface at home and school
• documents are never lost
• When collaborating on a document - Google Apps can record who did what.
• ability to collaborate (i.e. able to work on the same document at the same time from remote locations)
• Teacher calendar
• Chat
• Having both spreadsheet and PowerPoint software at home
• Large enough user space that large projects such as video and podcasts can be saved and easily moved from home to school
• Works on both Macs and PCs

According to teachers the best things about Google Apps are:

• ability to easily share electronic documents with all students in a class quickly and easily
• ability to up load Word and PowerPoint files
• Easy to use web page creator
• ability to search documents
• calender
• ability to make comments on students work as they are working on the document
• prevents plagiarism (can see every revision of a document)
• ability to post videos that are only viewable for people inside school domain
• ability to limit (i.e. only to students of a class) who see class marks generated by markbook when the marks are posted
• less photo-coping and printing