Interestingly enough, my group's project for TSTM 544 involves instructing teachers on how to use Google Docs. Many times, we needed to discover how using these applications would benefit them. The perfect response came in the form of an article posted by the The Web Services Report. It states, "Google Docs' summer interns this summer were tasked with working on improvements and additions to the service geared toward students. The results of their work, now available to try out, include new features such as an equation editor, superscripts and subscripts, document translation, improvements to surveys, and more outlining options." These features are aimed at assisting students with their other classes. The article concludes by stating, "Students comprise one of the core groups of users and potential users of Docs, so it makes sense to build out the feature set to support the kinds of word-processing, spreadsheet-tweaking, and presentation-building tasks that they typically need to perform." In relation to my project, it could be useful to state that one of the largest audiences that use Google Docs, are in fact, students.
Source: Cnet.com
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