Google is launching Classroom, a new offering in its Google Apps for Education to provide students and teachers with a central place to create, store, organize and provide feedback for classroom assignments.

The service, which is in beta and available only in some schools, allows teachers to:

• Create and collect assignments: The service “weaves together Google Docs, Drive and Gmail to help teachers create and collect assignments paperlessly.” Teachers can “quickly see who has or hasn’t completed the work, and provide direct, real-time feedback to individual students.” 
• Improve class communications: Teachers can make announcements, ask questions and comment with students in real time—improving communication inside and outside of class. 
• Stay organized: Classroom automatically creates Drive folders for each assignment and for each student. Students can easily see what’s due on their Assignments page. (Source: Google Blog)