Google Apps provide a number of real benefits to schools, especially those who don’t have dedicated IT support.
Saving money, helping people work together, and reducing complexity are just a few of the reasons that schools are moving to Google Apps.
Google Apps Education Edition transforms the way that students learn and teachers teach, increasing IT efficiency so that you can focus your budget and resources to your real priorities. With Google Apps, your school can provide integrated email, calendaring, online documents, and website creation and sharing to all of your users.
Read on to see how Google Apps could help you.
Google Mail
Trying to find that email from someone a couple of months ago that wasn’t important then but is now? Do you still have it, or did you delete it?
With Google Mail there is no need to delete email to stay within your allowed space – just archive it! With built-in Google Search finding email again is quick and easy without having to remember who sent the email or when it was sent.
Google Calendar
Trying to find a time to schedule a meeting? Check the box next to each teacher’s name, see each calendar appear alongside your own, and scan for the empty space. No more guessing only to find out that people have existing commitments.
How about scheduling parents’ evening appointments without any problems of double-bookings?
Google Calendar is accessible from any computer with a browser – gone are the days of forgetting when meetings are!
Google Docs
What sounds better? Creating a spreadsheet, emailing it to several coworkers for their feedback and spending hours rebuilding the master spreadsheet, or creating your spreadsheet, sharing it as an online Google Doc and allowing co-workers to contribute their edits directly to the master document without you having to reconcile their changes? The time you save by not hassling with attachments or having to deal with multiple copies of the same file lets you get to the priorities that you never had time for before.
Google Sites
Google Sites allows you to maintain information online – meeting notes, project plans, partners portals and more. None of this requires any additional IT support and it’s as easy as creating a document. Information in your sites is always available and searchable to easily reference in the future.