© December 2020| IJIRT | Volume 7 Issue 7 | ISSN: 2349-6002 IJIRT 150609 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN TECHNOLOGY 298 Google Classroom, Google Apps and Chrome Extensions-An Overview V.Rachel Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore Abstract - In the twenty-first century significant changes are occurring related to new scientific discoveries, digitalization, globalization, the development of astronautics, robotics, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. This century is called the age of digital technologies and knowledge. Till the Corono virus pandemic situation most of the educational institutions adapted the traditional classroom lectures. The academic institutions that were unwilling to change their traditional teaching learning methods were forced to shift to the new paradigm of online teaching and learning methods during the crisis. This paper focuses on the various online teaching learning tools available and how it can be used effectively. Index Terms - Educational Technology, Corono virus, online tools 1.INTRODUCTION The world at present is in a time where the global economy has been badly affected due to the deadly virus Corono (Schulten, 2020). Among all the sectors, the entire education sector is the most badly affected by the virus where the students were not able to attend the physical classes and listen to the lectures. The educational institutions that adapted the traditional teaching methods were forced to shift to online teaching learning methods (LokanathMishra, 2020). No one is aware when the situation will become back to normal and continue with face to face teaching. In higher education the teaching and learning faces new challenges. Higher educational institutions around the world are undergoing rapid changes as they adapt to the paradigm shift of the knowledge society. While the development, maintenance and dissemination of knowledge have long been the primary goals of higher education institutions, recent pandemic situation are forcing universities to adopt new approaches in the way these goals are achieved (Shivangi Dhawan, 2020). Educators are being asked to convey quality teaching practices with less human resources to meet the learning needs of a growing student population. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have made a lot of impact on all parts of society, including education. So during the pandemic situation many educational institutions adopted few tools and technologies and connected with the students. Many faculty members are still unaware of all the tools and technology available to use them in their teaching pedagogy. In this article an overview of the available online tools will be discussed. 1.1 Online Tools There are so many online tools available and each one has a unique feature of its own. The following list shows few of the online tools that can be used in online teaching pedagogy. Google classroom, OBS, Openshot, Armcharts, Draw.io, Mindmap, Renderforest, otter.ai, Kahoot, Quizz, Jamboard, Powtoon, Youneedawiki, Peardeck etc. 1.2 Google Apps If a person has a Gmail account, then he/she can access the Google apps. There are so many Google apps available like Classroom, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Drive, Jamboard etc.Fig. 1 shows how Google apps can be accessed by clicking the 'Waffle' which is the grid of nine small grey boxes that is found in the top right corner of the browser when using Gmail. Fig.1 Accessing Google Apps