November 9, 2020 Are you stuck fighting with VPN connections to allow off-campus access to your on-prem file storage systems? Do you have aging server hardware and facing a costly upgrade? Or perhaps you have been a target of expensive ransomware attacks? If your school is using Google for Education, you already have access to […]
As a former technology director, I was always looking for ways to find the ROI on the many initiatives and projects that we instituted around the district. Adding further complexity, Education IT tends to have different goals than a “traditional” IT department would. In education, we look for transformational changes in learning. Specifically, many schools […]
Google did a thing today: A complete rebrand of G Suite to Google Workspace! Before we all start getting excited, nervous, or worried about what this means for your EDU G Suite environment, we want to let you know it won’t immediately impact the education space. Although Google Workspace has officially launched, the changes announced […]
The longer a district has been using Google Workspace for Education, the larger becomes the looming elephant of 3rd party application use. How do you know what apps on the internet your staff and students are using via their Google Workspace accounts? The amount of applications and sites out there is staggering, and by default, […]
It’s summer and we’d all rather be listening to the waves rolling in rather than spending time setting up and preparing existing Chromebooks for the next school year. While we’ve visited this topic before, we thought we would remind you of a few options available and provide a few tips and tricks to speed up […]
Here’s the scenario. It’s a new year and your staff has shuffled positions. You have added them to the proper distribution lists, calendars, and updated the school website. All systems are a go…until the phone rings. The staff member is happily in their new position but realizes that they need files that the previous staff […]
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 […]
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 […]
School is fast approaching and soon (if not already) students will be firing up Chromebooks in classrooms across your district. You can become the hero that your district didn’t even know they needed! Navigating websites, creating Google Drive files, accessing Google Workspace services will be a common task for students. So how can Google Workspace […]
Google has released new changes on how some Admin console settings can be applied. Here’s a chance to catch up with Google for Education Training Lead, Tom Woods, to find out which ones you should know about and what flexibility these granular settings will provide. Google’s recent addition of granular settings adjustment by Group membership […]
Now that Google NEXT19 is officially in the rearview mirror and our twitter feeds are no longer inundated with constant photos, videos, and updates from the event, it is time that we consider the impact that those changes may have on our Google environments. Ultimately, like any live event, a lot of the excitement was […]