Google Сlassroom as a tool for enhancing the individual responsibility of the students under the conditions of distance education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the urgent problem of effective organization of the distance education process to overcome the negative impact of the military conflict at the level of students’ education and their competitiveness in the modern labour market. In this context, the article presents an overview of the functionality of one of the most popular educational platforms, namely, Google Classroom. The use of the platform, which is free of charge, allows you to organize the effective interaction of all agents of the educational process, structure the educational material and ensure the effective and fair assessment of the learning achievements of students of higher education. The scientific study highlights the functional characteristics of the Google Classroom platform, namely the possibility to create a training course, structure it by sections, determine their topics, design a calendar plan, specify the terms of studying the relevant material, as well as the deadlines of completing learning assignments. The work highlights the positive characteristics of the platform: being free of charge; the possibility of self-subscription; availability of a unified Google account, which simplifies access to all services; availability of convenient and simple functionality; accessibility from any digital device connected to the Internet, etc. The article proves that both Google Class and Google Calendar can function as an instance of responsibility for students, as it allows students to plan and set deadlines for completing educational tasks; set reminders; create “thematic calendars”; make a list of tasks, etc. The function of joint use of the calendar provides opportunities for joint planning of the work of the educator and students. The work substantiates that the functional potential of the Google Class platform provides vectors for enhancing students’ individual responsibility of students by actualizing the processes of time management and action planning, the result of which will be the processes of self-reflection, self-correction, and further self-improvement.