When will Google stop? Google last week announced a new course-scheduling system, CloudCourse,that could potentially have implications for higher education. CloudCourse is integrated with Google Calendar and allows users to schedule classes, look up user profiles, and sync the service's data with internal university systems. CloudCourse was built entirely on Google's App Engine, which allows users to build and host Web apps. Google hopes that CloudCourse can serve as an example of how to use the App Engine.
One potential use for CloudCourse is to manage class rosters with tools that allow users to look at enrolled versus waitlisted students, mark student attendance, and change a student's enrollment status in a course. Universities typically already have an internal system to complete the tasks CloudCourse can perform.
CloudCourse might help university administrators who don't have the time or resources to worry about hardware hosting and dealing with traffic bursts that occur during class enrollment periods.
Source: Wired Campus
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