Ntended To Fulfill One Of The Requirements For The Award Of Sarjana Degree In English Language Education Study Program Of Universitas Islam Riau

With current technological advances, teachers or lecturers and students can take advantage of technology as a means of the learning process that can be done online without having face-to-face meetings. Google Classroom is one of the learning management systems that can be used to support the online learning activities. Hence, this study aimed to know the students’ preferences of using Google Classroom in learning at the sixth semester students in English language education program of FKIP UIR This study worked on a quantitative research design, the researcher used questionnaires to collect the data. The indicators of the questionnaire consist of four indicators as follows; resources sharing, activity, support, and evaluation which were adapted from (Balasubramanian et al., 2014). To be able to find out the answers of each respondent, the researcher also used a four point Likert scale; strongly agree 3.01-4.00, agree 2.71-3.00, disagree 1.71-2.70, strongly disagree 1.00-1.70. The Researchers also used Google Forms as a process of distributing the questionnaires to the samples. The results of the analysis from the questionnaire showed that the average responses of the students towards the preferences of using Google Classroom as resource sharing was 3.09 (strongly agree). Then, in terms of preferences in the activities of using Google Classroom, the students’ average is 2.99 (Agree). In addition, for the use of Google Classroom to support the students in learning, the data showed that the students disagree (2.74). The preference of using Google Classroom for evaluation was 2.89 (Agree). In conclusion, the students did not preferences to use Google Classroom in their learning process because one of the indicators showed the students disagree that the Google Classroom totally supports their learning