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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Keeping email correspondence ‘hush-hush’ between parties never sounded so easy with the release of Google’s Confidential Mode in Gmail for Google Workspace customers and Google for Education users. To ensure we are all on the same page – Confidential Mode is a setting within Gmail that allows emails to be sent and then automatically deleted from […]
Communication is key in any industry and especially as it relates to business processes happening in schools. From it’s days of “Google Talk” to “G Chat”, Google Hangouts has always been viewed as a simple chat interface. With the introduction Hangouts Chat we are seeing functionality that is far beyond just sending emoji’s to a […]
As an admin, you’re often getting requests to provide various types of permissions/access to a small set of users in an OU that may currently have the service otherwise disabled. For example, you may get a special request to allow a single middle school class to have access to YouTube for a project, even though […]