March 11, 2020 Each year we discover more and more schools are turning to their Chromebook devices to administer state or provincial testing to students. While managed devices can certainly streamline the testing process, they can present a unique set of challenges as well. Below you’ll find 10 tips that can help your school prepare […]
March 10, 2020 Can we turn off apps if teachers/faculty are not on our network? Can we make this only work when students are at school? These sort of questions probably sound very familiar. In education technology, these types of requests are frequent and most settings do have had the ability to be set granularly […]
Whether your district is new to Google Classroom or if you’re veteran power users, inevitably you may be plagued with the existence of student-owned classes on your domain. In fact, much like orphaned Google Classroom classes, most districts don’t know they have student-owned Google Classroom classes unless they become a problem. And like orphaned classes […]
One of the major themes of Amplified IT’s Audit is addressing the fact that the Google Workspace for Education platform is designed with business in mind first and its education usage a very distant second or third. As a result, many of the settings found within the Admin console make a lot more sense when […]
Do you know who has access to your Admin console? When doing Google domain audits we so often see users in admin roles who have been granted too little or too much access along with users with unprotected accounts. Delegating the right level of access to users can not only help them be more successful […]
*Cue the sound of Auld Lang Syne and popping corks resonating softly in the background* 2019 was a year of growth at Amplified Labs – we launched some visionary new products, learned new development techniques, gave the people what they wanted – live chat support! – and added three new people to the team. As […]
In November, it was communicated that Google was no longer going to support Google Cloud Print. Amplified IT’s partner management team did an initial post on this news trying to get ahead of the fear which typically comes along with this type of uncertainty. After having some time to process what the next steps are […]
The first week of December, Amplified IT brought all 34-strong team members from three countries together to the headquarters in Norfolk, Virginia for the first time. The entire week was spent working together, learning, cross-collaborating, and building deeper relationships. We started it all off with our seven teams presented on how they smashed their goals […]
Do you know what Vault isn’t storing from Gmail? Yes, we’ve covered confidential emails in a previous article, but we aren’t talking about those, we are referring to everyday emails that are sent and received…. and not captured in Vault. In this vlog, Tom identifies content that Vault is not retaining from Gmail and gives […]
An often unanticipated result of user account deletion, orphaned classes in Google Classroom keep cropping in Google Workspace forums and support desks across the education ecosystem. Schools likely don’t know they have this problem until it becomes a larger issue. So what are orphaned classes, how can they be prevented, and how can you fix […]
Long before there was Google Workspace, there was Gmail. And whether it is used for notifying staff about important events, receiving Classroom update notifications, or students communicating among themselves, Gmail is one of the most used features of Google Workspace. At the beginning of the internet, developers were just happy that things worked and that […]
Recently Google announced the sunsetting of Google Cloud Print. Starting December 31, 2020, Google Cloud Print will no longer function on any OS platform so it’s important to be mindful of the change and explore an alternate solution. In this post, we will walk you through what’s happening with Google Cloud Print, what you need […]