Journal of English Language Teaching Volume 9 No. 2 Journal of English Language Teaching ISSN 2302-3198 Published by English Language Teaching Study Program of FBS Universitas Negeri Padang available at http://ejournal.unp.ac.id/index.php/jelt © FBS Universitas Negeri Padang THE USE OF GOOGLE CLASSROOM DURING PANDEMIC Mike Okmawati SMA Negeri 10 Solok Selatan Durian Tanjak, Kec.Sangir Kab.Solok Selatan email: kekeabim@gmail.com Abstract Educational systems worldwide has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic , leading to the near-total closures of schools, and colleges. Most governments around the world have temporarily closed educational institutions in order to restrain the spread of Covid-19. This requires all elements of education to adapt and to continue the teaching learning process. The Indonesia Government assigns the distance learning sistem using online learning. This is effective solution to activate classroom eventhough school have been closed to reduce the spread of covid-19. Many platforms of digital sources have been implemented by school, one of them is using Google Classroom. This research aims to get review of using Google Classroom during this pandemic. This study was library research that describe the phenemenon of using Google Classroom. The result of the research finding prove that it is effective to use this platform. It is one way to be considered by the schools and teachers to provide students by e learning that can be attracted for the students, while the process of teacher learning move to virtual classes. Key words: Google Classroom, Pandemic, Covid-19, Online Learning A. INTRODUCTION Today, worldwide are facing the same problem, which is coronavirus. On 31 December 2019, WHO was informed of cases of pneumonia of unknown causes in Wuhan City, China. A novel coronavirus was identified as the cause by Chinese authorities on 7 January 2020 and was temporarily named “2019-nCoV”. According to WHO, Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases. A novel coronavirus is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans. The new virus was subsequently named the “COVID-19 virus”. On 11 March 2020, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced that the outbreak could be characterized as a pandemic since the rapid increase in the number of cases outside China. A pandemic is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”(Kelly, 2011). The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology, or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of