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Google is famous for half-assing and then abandoning promising projects. (insert comparison vs other tech companies). One example of a half forgotten project i
by sireat 6y ago
Google is famous for half-assing and then abandoning promising projects. (insert comparison vs other tech companies).
One example of a half forgotten project is something called Google Classrooms - for teachers and students.
It is missing so many basic features.
For example there is no way to automatically take attendance when students log in.
You can hack around it but for a project aimed at teachers it shouldn't be so painful.
While I am ranting: I am still thankful(/s) to Google for abandoning Google Hangouts integration with Youtube live streaming.
This forced me onto OBS full time and is actually a good thing.
EDIT: I speculate that this frequent failure of integrating between various Google properties must be because there is a strong silo effect by now at Google just like any other big corporation.
- jankiehodgpodge 6y agoYou can't take attendance in Google classroom because schools use MIS/SIS software to track attendance/assessment data etc. Without links back to the schools MIS data it gets held in a Google silo where it's not useful to anyone.
- sireat 6y agoThank you! Chesterton's fence strikes again. There had to be a reason for this misfeature. Then the question is why would schools use Google classroom at all then if they have their own MIS/SIS. As I was teaching to adults I was puzzled on how to effectively use Google Classroom.