Pelatihan Pengintegrasian Google Suite for Education untuk Learning Management System bagi Guru SMP
Authors: Purba Harja Santana , Sari Delsika Pramata , Wiranda Nuruddin , Hermanto Hermanto , Irhamna Wahid , Ridhani Muhammad Fahmi , Akhyari Ahmad Sajjad , Sukmawati R Ati 
Published: February 2024

Tujuan kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (PkM) ini adalah melakukan pelatihan pengintegrasian GSE-LMS bagi guru SMP Kabupaten Banjar. Metode pelaksanaan PkM ini terdiri dari persiapan, pelaksanaan kegiatan dan pendampingan, serta evaluasi kegiatan. tim PkM mempersiapkan modul praktikum GSE-LMS untuk dibagikan kepada peserta saat kegiatan Pelatihan. Kegiatan PkM ini dilaksanakan selama 2 kali pertemuan secara tatap muka pada bulan Juni 2023. Pelaksanaan kegiatan PkM ini di laboratorium komputer SMPN 2 Kertak Hanyar, Kabupaten Banjar. Peserta yang hadir sebanyak 20 guru SMPN 2 Kertak Hanyar. Instrumen evaluasi kegiatan yang digunakan untuk pengumpulan data berupa angket yang diisi oleh peserta melalui Google Form. Hasil evaluasi menunjukkan bahwa peserta sangat setuju bahwa kegiatan PkM sangat bermanfaat dan sesuai dengan kebutuhan mitra di lapangan untuk mendukung inovasi pembelajaran berbantuan teknologi. Selain itu, peserta begitu bersemangat mengikuti kegiatan pelatihan dan meminta kegiatan pelatihan TIK dilakukan secara kontinu ke depan untuk peningkatan kompetensi guru mengimplementasikan TIK dalam pembelajaran. Temuan yang menarik bahwa sebanyak 56,5% peserta menganggap penggunaan fitur-fitur pada Google Classroom sebagai LMS mudah dipahami dan mudah digunakan dibandingkan dengan aplikasi Google lainnya yang telah diberikan saat pelatihan. Selanjutnya, sebagai bahan masukan bagi tim PkM bahwa perlu ada pelatihan lanjutan terkait aplikasi Google lainnya yang dianggap sulit bagi guru-guru sebagai peserta. This Community Service (CS) activity aimed to conduct GSE-LMS integration training for Banjar Regency Middle School teachers. The CS implementation method consists of preparation, implementation of activities, mentoring, and evaluation of activities. The CS team prepared the GSE-LMS practicum module to be distributed to participants during training activities. This CS activity was carried out during two face-to-face meetings in June 2023. This CS activity was carried out in the computer laboratory of SMPN 2 Kertak Hanyar, Banjar Regency. Participants who attended were 20 teachers at SMPN 2 Kertak Hanyar. The activity evaluation instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire filled out by participants via Google Forms. The evaluation results showed that participants strongly agree that CS activities were very useful and by the needs of partners in the field to support technology-assisted learning innovation. Apart from that, participants were very enthusiastic about participating in training activities and asked that ICT training activities be carried out continuously to increase teacher competence in implementing ICT in learning. An interesting finding was that 56.5% of participants considered using the features in Google Classroom as an LMS easy to understand and use compared to other Google applications provided during training. Furthermore, as input for the CS team, there needs to be further training regarding other Google applications, which are considered difficult for the teachers as participants.