GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS A LEARNING TOOL IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM

Abstract

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus in Indonesia has forced all
activities to be done from home. So that in the world of education
all teachers are required to use and create learning media that
can be operated effectively for students from home. The
objectives of this study is to analyze students' perceptions of
using Google Classroom as a tool for learning English. The
method in this research is quantitative descriptive through online
questionnaires to fifty-six students of the third and the fifth
semester from the English Education Study Program at Baturaja
University. Fifty-six students joined Google Classroom at
studying English for at least one semester during the covid19
pandemic. The instrument was made by google form. A set of
questionnaires was shared with students that contains 10 closedended

questions. There were four aspects covered in the
questionnaire: usefulness, ease of use, ease of learning, and
satisfaction. The results showed the mean score with the
following distribution: 71,6% for usefulness, 55,5% for ease of
use, 54% for ease of learning, and 69,5% for satisfaction.