AdEPT Education Google for Education The complete collection of services for schools AdEPT.CO.UK Contents What is Google for Education 3 Google Workspace for Education 4 Get set-up 5 Editions 6 Support & Training 9 Case Study 10 Chromebooks 12 Additional Services 14 About us 15 Contact 16 2 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK What is Google for Education What is Google for Education? Google for Education is a complete range of incredibly affordable, and sometimes even free software tools and hardware devices designed by Google for use in schools. If deployed and used correctly, they will ena- ble teachers to challenge their students with flexible, secure, and easy-to-use tools that empower learning while helping to minimise and digitalise the busy workload of your staff. Easy to use Simple to deploy and manage education tools that all have an intuitive user interface. They are easy-to-use and let individuals confidently access everything they need in one place. Built for collaboration Educators and learners can collaborate meaningfully, from one-on-one instruction to working in groups. Flexible and scalable The tools are built for the people who use them: learners, educators, staff, IT admins and families. They empower your entire school community with solutions that can flex and adapt to different needs. Secure by design With advanced multi-layer security built-in, the tools are designed to help keep schools and learners protected from the evolving digital threats, whilst meeting rigorous privacy and compliance education standards. 3 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Google Workspace for Education Google Workspace for Education Google Workspace for Education is a suite of best-in class productivity tools, used by over 170 million educators and learners worldwide. These tools are built for teaching and learning and are used to create, collaborate, and communicate. They are simple, secure, helpful and give educators more time to help learners thrive. The range of school transforming core tools, and much more, include: • Classroom – create, review and organise homework, as well as communicate directly with students. • Meet – connect virtually through secure face-to face virtual lessons. • Gmail & Calendar – school-wide email and calendar systems. • Drive – store your files securely in the cloud and access them at any time from any device. • Sites – an easy-to use web builder to host course curriculum and unleash students’ creativity. • Forms – create quizzes and surveys to collect and analyse responses. • Sheets, Docs and Slides – create spreadsheets, documents and presentations. • Jamboard – a digital whiteboard that sparks creativity, collaboration and engagement. 4 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Get set-up Transform your school with Google Workspace for Education At AdEPT Education we have vast Google Workspace experience and have set up many hundreds of schools with a platform, including over 230 in response to Covid 19 and the move to remote learning on the Department for Education’s Platform Provisioning Programme. Despite being easy to use, Google Workspace for Education needs to be set up correctly for the best results. Particularly whilst ensuring the appropriate safeguarding and education best practice configurations are applied. With a Google Workspace for Education set-up service from AdEPT Education you remove the risk of an incorrectly configured platform, the hassle, and the many hours of research required to do it right. We expertly configure Google Workspace for Education according to the latest education best practices and school’s requirements. Following deployment, we walk through what we have set up and provide some training to get schools started on their Google journey the right way. Our set-up service includes: • The set-up of the school’s domain with Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals. • Provisioning user accounts (logins and passwords) for staff and students. • Creating class groups in Google Classroom. • Turning off certain services for student users. • Configuring default retention policies in Google Vault. • Provisioning a portal in Google Sites with links to the apps and resources for staff and students. • Setting a baseline configuration for user settings policies and apps in line with Google and education best practices. • A 2-hour training session. • A handover document that details what has been set up, and further resources to help get started. It is our firm belief that a properly deployed Google Workspace for Education platform will be of huge benefit to your school, allowing you to run essential aspects of your day-to-day, and communicate, teach and learn wherever your staff, students and administrators are based. Please contact us to get started today. 5 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Editions Choose the right edition for your school Google is committed to providing a free suite of tools for schools long-term in the form of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals (formerly G Suite for Education). However, from April 2021, in order to provide more choice and make it easier to get the most out of Google Workspace for Education, the subscription family evolved to offer more tailored options. With over 15 years’ experience of creating tools for educators, Google understand that all schools share a need for transformative solutions that help them modernise how they work and learn. Schools’ storage, management, security and compliance needs vary greatly however. Some need more advanced security offerings; others need additional teaching tools; and some need all of the above. Google Workspace for Education now offers you more choice and control to meet your school’s needs with three different upgrade options. 6 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Editions Editions Google Workspace for Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals Education Standard (Formerly known as G Suite for Education) Level up with advanced security, Bring your school community together analytics, and controls to safeguard with a free suite of tools that provides your school community against a flexible and secure foundation constantly evolving cyber threats. for learning, communication and collaboration - all in one place. Free for schools £2.00/student/year The essential tools and features Includes everything in Education including: Fundamentals plus: Collaborate with others Proactive security with the Security simultaneously using Classroom, Centre, the Security Investigation Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Tool and the Security Sandbox. Jamboard and more. Prevent, detect, remediate and block threats quickly across your entire Communicate with staff, students school. and parents from anywhere using Google Meet and Gmail. Improve data and insight visibility with advanced audit logs. Apply more granular access policies to apps with Context-Aware Access. Interested in trialling an upgrade? If you want to experience the powerful capabilities unlocked with an upgrade first-hand, we can enable a free no-obligation trial of Education Plus, Education Standard or the Teaching and Learning Upgrade for your school. The trial will last 60 days and grant 50 user licenses to use during this time. Please contact us to get this set up. 7 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Editions Editions Teaching and Learning Google Workspace Upgrade for Education Plus (Formerly known as G Suite Enterprise for Education) Empower teachers with enhanced The ultimate comprehensive solution video communication, enriched class incorporating advanced security and experiences, and academic integrity analytics, enhanced teaching and tools. learning tools, and more. £2.25/staff/month £3.20/student/year Includes everything in Education Includes everything in Education Fundamentals plus: Standard and the Teaching and Learning upgrade plus: Premium Google Meet features including meetings with up Personalised Cloud Search for your to 250 participants, in-domain live school making information accessible streaming, polling and Q&A, Breakout and easy to find. rooms and attendance tracking. Utilise Approvals for important Unlimited originality reports documents. including peer to peer comparison. Gain extra cloud storage for your school. Due to our Google partnership and wealth of experience working with schools, we are well placed to assist with finding the right Google Workspace for Education edition for your school. With three different upgrade options available, and the option of using some editions in conjunction with each other, there is a solution to fulfil your school’s specific needs. For many schools, the tools offered within Education Fundamentals are enough to facilitate learning and collaborating anywhere. However, if you would like to discuss upgrading your platform and how doing so will benefit your school, please do not hesitate to get in contact with our team. 8 AdEPT — Google for Education AdEPT.CO.UK Support & Training Support for Google Workspace for Education Our Service Desk is made up of a dedicated team of 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support engineers and technicians that know cloud technologies inside out. Our team supports over 4,000 schools nationwide, including the London Grid for Learning community of schools - Europe’s largest educational WAN. Subscribers of our Google support service benefit from telephone support, remote support and guidance that is there when you need it, whatever your level of IT expertise. We offer support for your IT administrators and teaching staff on