Makes me wonder if you could point an agent at a school Google Classroom and get it to clean up all this stuff. It's roughly a storage platform, and those do accumulate cruft. An agent can go deep, actually understand the pieces, fix permissions, delete corrupted stuff that is also probably defunct, etc.

It’d be like giving a monkey a machine gun.

Most of what people do with it is muscle memory. Everyone would be instantly broken. They are if anyone changes or moves anything already.

I sincerely hope this comment was made in jest.

> I have heard of entire subject lessons being wasted on IT issues. And children getting detention because something was broken.

It's good that schools are teaching kids how the real world works :)

I’ve joked about that a couple of times as well :)

At least it’s not the raspberry Pi and programming fad which taught children to sift through boxes of damaged e-waste to assemble a working computer for the first 90% of the lesson.

Sounds awesome

My kid has some mild attention issues, keeping track of assignments is only made more difficult by Google classrooms. Some assignments are in Google Classrooms, some are there but only placeholders as there was a handout, some aren't in there at all.

I doubt Google Classroom itself is the problem at all, that's pretty rock-solid in my experience.

But with third-party auth, the third-party add-ons and integrations, that's where it turns into complete crap. Those are the things that often tend to be terribly engineered.

Classroom pretty much works like a dream if you stick to materials in Docs/Sheets/Slides and do the grading within Classroom as well. And if each student has their own device so they don't need to log in again every day, even better.

But schools purchase all of these integrations and then expect the teachers to use them and then the quality of the user experience goes down the toilet. But the fault is pretty much entirely with the integrations, in my experience. Because some are quite reliable, it can definitely be done. But a lot of these companies just don't care.

Is this a state school? Government rules [1] say:

> School governing bodies and local authorities cannot charge for:

> [...]

> education provided during school hours (including the supply of any materials, books, instruments or other equipment)

[1]: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5af99c8ae5274...

It’s an academy.

If it's a state school (even an academy) they can't force you to pay for technology that they require your child to use.

Teachers have been teaching kids to read and write for 5000 years.

But I suppose education is a business and they need to keep inventing new "methods".