50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom

10. Reduce Cheating

Students do not have access to the Google Classroom assignment folder. The assignment folder is accessible by the teacher only. Since the class documents are not in a shared folder, the students do not have the ability to copy other students’ work from the folder. This is an upgrade from simply using Google Drive; sharing a Google Drive folder with the class allows for all students to view the work of other students, which, potentially, can lead to copying.

Within each student Google Document, the teacher can use the revision history to see when the document was edited and who did the editing. Revisions are frequently recorded. When a student has only one revision, this could signal that the student copied the document of another student.