Google Classroom (GC) is gaining momentum in the educational
milieu, but its functionalities are limited. Learning analytics
applications integrated with GC can help to face these limitations,
but to reach this aim, developers need access to the data generated
by GC’s users. This paper reports on the results of an analysis of
the existing alternatives to collect data from GC. The study is
based on the analysis of the documentation provided by the
involved tools. The analysis shows that GC’s API is a potential
source of data about the activity of the users in GC-enabled
settings, but that the information it provides is limited. Further
work is needed to explore if Chrome OS synchronization
functions can deliver more detailed information about GC usage,
thus enabling for more advanced learning analytics applications.
