Optimalisasi Google Classroom dalam peningkatan hasil belajar IPS

Education is a conscious and planned effort to provide guidance in developing children's potential, both physically and spiritually, given by adults to children to reach maturity and achieve children's goals. Mid-March 2020 the Covid-19 virus began to enter Indonesia and on March 11 2020 WHO declared this outbreak a global pandemic. This was also experienced at MTs Wahid Hasim 01 Dau Malang, so that in the implementation of online learning, social studies teachers used Google Classroom as a learning medium so that they could still interact with students. The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) the social studies learning process for grade VII students at MTs Wahid Hasim 01 Dau Malang during the pandemic; (2) the use of Google Classroom in social studies learning for grade VII students at MTs Wahid Hasim 01 Dau Malang during the pandemic; and (3) Social Studies learning outcomes for grade VII students using Google Classroom at MTs Wahid Hasim 01 Dau Malang during the Pandemic Period. The research method used in this study uses qualitative research methods and the type of case study research. The results of the research that have been carried out show that: (1) the learning process carried out during the pandemic uses two methods, namely online and offline, adapted to the conditions of the spread of the virus in the city of Malang. (2) Learning from using google classroom as a social media learning medium for class VII is quite good, there are many advantages and disadvantages that exist in the google classroom application that can help teachers and students in carrying out the learning process optimally. The main problem in using google classroom is signals. (3) The learning outcomes obtained by students while using google classroom media during the online learning process were 51.6 which students obtained after doing the midterm exams