Google Classroom: The Cons

As I said in my previous post, I love Google Classroom.  This post will eventually become totally irrelevant as Google Classroom will get a lot better.  In fact this post may become irrelevant very soon.  So take this post as look into the future of Google Classroom might be able to do in the very near future.

• Co-Teaching Capabilities: Right now Google Classroom only allows one person to manage and be the administrator of that specific class.  I have a few teachers using it right now who co-teach, and it is a pain for them.  One of the teachers is the admin and the other has to sit idly by while the admin. teacher has all the fun.  I assume this feature will be added very soon.
• Sharing and Folder Features: Google classroom creates folders in your drive for each class you have set up, and then for each assignment you create (this is where the student's assignments end up going once they turn them in).  The great part about the Doctopus add-on is it created folders for your students and for you (the teacher).  You could tell Doctupus how the rest of the class saw each document and then in turn it would automatically share those documents with you instantly so you could check progress constantly.  Classroom can create the assignment for each individual student, and does create folders for the students for each class, but it does not automatically share documents with the teacher.  The document is only shared if the student presses "turn in" or shares it manually. 
• Side Note: Doctopus was confusing and not the most user-friendly add-on.  Once you set it up once, it's a breeze, but that initial set-up takes awhile, and it can be a training nightmare.  Hopefully Classroom picks up these features that Doctopus has and incorporates them.  This would render Doctupus useless and if integrated slowly it would not be the training nightmare Doctopus is
• Customization: Right now the dashboard is sleek, simple, and modern in Classroom which is great.  I do wish I could customize it a little more though.  Sure I can change my cover photo from the gallery, but I want more.  This one doesn't necessarily effect how the app is used, but we like to be unique, so why can't my Classroom?  This, I am sure will change soon.
• Management: Right now management for Classroom is very basic.  Students join the class, they can comment, and upload whatever they want.  I think that is great, and if it was my class, I wouldn't change a thing.  I have some teachers, though, that won't use it because they can't disable certain features like commenting.  This is, unfortunately, a trust issue, and I DON'T think it is Classroom's issue.  I would say that classroom will add this management feature eventually.  This would give teachers the power to disable commenting and uploading and then classroom just becomes a place where students go to get resources.  Perhaps, the feature could event go as far as individualizing, so a teacher could disable these features for individual students, rather than the entire class.  Teachers now can remove students and delete what students post.  Like I said, I think the management is fine right now, but some teachers want more.  

Right now, that's all I can think of that could be added to Google Classroom.  It's a great tool already and I only foresee it getting better in the weeks, months, and years ahead.  Invite Google into your classroom and you won't be disappointed.