Comparing and Contrasting Doctopus and Google Classroom

Teachers, 

Have you ever been in the situation where you want all students to create a document (perhaps based on your template), shared with you so you can then give feedback (I'm guessing "yes")?  How can you manage this so that your GMail inbox is not overrun with Share notifications and you can easily find all those files?

Doctopus and Google Classroom are both tools that manage the sharing and "collecting" of student work in Google Apps.  How are they the same? How are they different?

SAME

• Set up student rosters
• Distribute an individual copy of a Google Doc to each student, properly named and shared with you.
• Access those docs all in the same folder.

DIFFERENT

• Rosters
• Doc: Teacher creates the roster
• GC: Students can self-enroll with a code or teacher can create the roster.
• Folders
• Doc: Also creates a folder for each student so you can see all of their work in one place
• GC: Only creates folders for each assignment, not each student.
• Rubric Grading
• Doc: Uses the Goobric Chrome extension for rubric grading.
• GC: Does not support rubric grading internally*
• Other features
• Doc: Shows details of when students last worked on the document and other information.
• GC: Classroom is more than a document management tool.  It also has a discussion forum that connects to GMail.   

*Doctopus and Google Classroom can actually be used in conjunction.  An assignment can be imported into Doctopus from Google Classroom, 

Some screenshots:

Doctopus:

Classroom:

So, what should you choose?  I would say that Google Classroom is overall easier to use. However, Classroom doesn't provide individual folders by students of rubric grading, so if you need those, consider Doctopus.

I'm happy to help you with either of these.