The Effectiveness of Google Classroom as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for School Teachers: Literature Review

Online learning has become an alternative way of teaching and learning. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the traditional face-to-face teaching and learning process has shifted to online learning. There are many platforms for online organizing online classes, and Google Classroom is one of them. However, some of the teachers are still struggling in conducting online classes. This paper aims to provide a literature review on the study of the impact of Google Classroom as a platform of teaching and learning for primary school teachers. There are positive and negative impacts regarding the use of this platform. Hence, it is important to derive the impact of Google Classroom as a teaching and learning platform for primary school teachers from the existing studies. There are some implications from the past studies, such as Google Classroom provides the changes in classroom dynamics, influences the behavioral intention positively, and acts as a facilitation tool. The results can aid the teachers to have more understanding of Google Classroom so they would be able to decide the best way to cooperate Google Classroom in their teaching and learning that might produce the optimum result, especially for the pupils