The Utilization of Google Classroom in Implementing Distance Learning in Islamic High School Al Azhar 9 of Yogyakarta During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

–The current learning process has entered the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 where information technology plays an important role in the learning process. Nowadays almost all parts of the worlds are currently facing a covid-19 pandemic whose spread is truly massive and rapid. The impact of the Covid - 19 pandemic was extraordinary and had an effect on various aspects of human life. The covid-19 pandemic directly or indirectly affect on many sectors namely healthcare system, economics, social and education as well. With the occurrence of these events, the government through the Ministry of Education issued a policy, that learning activities carried out at home or learning is carried out remotely, this applies from the start of primary and secondary education. With this policy, it is hoped to break the chain of spread of the Covid - 19 virus among people. With the responsibility as an educator who is at the forefront of the learning process, many teachers executed the implementation of teaching and learning activities which carried out online through online system. There are several application options that are used to support learning, one of which is using Google classroom. This paper discussed the process of planning, implementation, evaluation of distance learning. Google Classroom Usage Assessment System was carried out after students submit the assignments, which carried out directly using the assessment content in the Google Classroom application. Posttest done by the student was then immediately corrected by the teacher with an average grade of 73.35. If seen from the average number it is indeed above the minimum completeness criteria (CCM), which is 73.00. After the whole value which includes the final cognitive value,the observation value of student activity, the value of the structured assignment, and the posttest was processed, the final grade is obtained. The result showed 20 students or 95.00% completed the final grade. The average cognitive value of the final grade achieved is 77.46.