Apps for EducationThe tools your students want
Gmail
More than email
Gmail groups replies to a message so it’s easier to follow the conversation.
You can start a text, voice, or video chat right from your inbox.
Users can stay in the loop when you’re on the go from a mobile phone or tablet.
Inbox space for everything, and no ads
Google Apps offers 25GB of storage per user, powerful spam filtering and a 99.9% uptime SLA. All hosted by Google - there’s no cost, and no ads for students, faculty or staff.
Work fast, save time
Gmail is designed to make everyone more productive. 25GB of storage means no need to delete anything, powerful search means everything is in each reach, and labels and filters help your users stay organized. Gmail is securely powered by the web, so students and faculty can be productive at home, on the road, or on their mobile devices.
Connect with people, according to your rules
The inbox isn't just about messages, it's about people too. Text, voice, and video chat means that students and teachers can see who is online and connect instantly. Don’t want your students using chat? Want to limit who can send emails to whom? It’s all in the administrator’s control.
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you@yourschool.edu
Use the email address that matches your school’s name and web address: you@yourschool.edu. You can also pick your own colors and logos to suit your institution.
Email on the go
Gmail works natively on popular mobile phones such as Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone and can send and receive email from any device with a web browser. Learn more.
Space for everything and no ads
Google Apps for Education comes with 25GB of email storage for every user. And students and faculty will not see adverts. Not one.
Offline support
The Offline Google Mail app for Chrome lets users read and write email without an internet connection. Drafted messages are sent next time there is an Internet connection. Get your day started on the train before you even arrive in school.
Designed for security and reliability
Gmail is designed for security and reliability with features like two-step authentication, attachment viewing in the browser, encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your email, built-in disaster recovery, spam filtering and sender authentication.Learn more
Vault
Meet stringent compliance needs for specific user groups like faculty or research staff by bundling Vault services with Google Apps - at an education discount.
Calendar
Help your students and faculty organize their time
Shared calendars make it easy to see when students/colleagues are free.
Creating a new event is as easy as typing a sentence.
When you’re having trouble scheduling a meeting or class, Calendar can suggest a time that works for everyone.
Easily schedule lessons and meetings
Overlay multiple calendars to see when people are available - a great way to manage staff schedules, for example. Google Calendar sends invitations and manages RSVPs.
Integrated with your school’s email
Google Calendar is integrated into Gmail and interoperable with popular calendar applications.
Share with classes, teams and clubs
Calendars can be shared school-wide or with select colleagues. A range of sharing permission controls help maintain security and privacy.
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Calendar on the go
Sync the built-in calendar on popular mobile phones such as Android and iPhone with Google Calendar or access your timetables from any device with a web browser. Even receive calendar notifications via SMS. Learn more
Offline support
The Google Calendar app for Chrome lets you view your class schedule and respond to invites, even when you don’t have an internet connection. Your calendar will be synced the next time you connect to the internet.
Event Reminders
Get custom reminders on your mobile phone or in your inbox, with all the details about your upcoming classes and meetings, right when you need them.
Publish calendars
Publicize big school events by publishing an events calendar for all to see. You can share this with students and parents alike. Easily embed calendars into web pages.
Designed for security and reliability
Google Calendar is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your calendar appointments, built-in disaster recovery, and fine-grained sharing, which lets you share your calendar with people in and out of your school or organization. Learn more
Drive
Store everything, share anything
All your files are accessible from any web browser.
Students can work together to create beautiful documents and work together on the same doc at the same time.
Share lists, track projects and analyze data with powerful spreadsheets. Great for school administration.
Access your files anywhere
Google Drive on your Mac, PC, Android or iOS device gives you a single place for up-to-date versions of your files from anywhere.
Bring your files to life
Share individual files or whole folders with specific people or your entire team or even contractors, partners and constituents. Create and reply to comments on files to get feedback or add ideas.
Store everything for next to nothing
Get started with 5GB of free space for each user. Need more? Starting at $5/user/month for 100GB, your IT team can provide up to 16TB per user.
Docs
Create rich documents with images, tables, equations, drawings, links and more. Gather input and manage feedback with social commenting.
Sheets
Keep and share lists, track projects, analyze data and track results with our powerful spreadsheet editor. Use tools like advanced formulas, embedded charts, filters and pivot tables to get new perspectives on your data.
Slides
Create beautiful slides with our presentation editor, which supports things like embedded videos, animations and dynamic slide transitions. Publish your presentations on the web so anyone can view them, or share them privately.
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Easy forms and surveys
Users can build surveys with the straightforward form editor and collect data from fellow students or the public. All the responses are recorded in a spreadsheet so it’s easy to analyze and share the results.
Drawings
Users can create and work together on visuals and then use the web clipboard to insert them into documents or presentations.
Open and view any file
View over 20 file types right in your browser, including videos, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files, even if your device doesn’t run the file’s original software. Save files from Aviary, Animoto, Balsamiq and other web apps directly to Google Drive, and launch those apps by opening these file types from your Drive.
Quickly find what you’re looking for
Use powerful search capabilities to find what you need quickly. You can search with keywords and filters to locate any file, including images that have text.
Template gallery
You can create templates across Documents to create consistency across departments, institutions, classes etc. You can get a jump start by using one of the pre-built templates, or create a privately shared template gallery for your school.
Designed for security
Google Docs is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, real-time file save, simultaneous replicated storage for your documents, built-in disaster recovery and fine-grained sharing controls that let you share your work with the right people.Learn more
Sites
Shared workspaces for classes, faculties and clubs
Build custom project sites that include videos, calendars, documents and more. Great for e-portfolios!
Building a project site is as easy as writing a document, no coding skills required.
Share your project sites with the right people, inside and outside your company.
Easy to build
Students can build project sites without writing a single line of code. It's as easy as writing a document. And, to save even more time, you can provide them with hundreds of pre-built templates.
System and site-level security controls
Administrators can manage site sharing permissions across the school, and authors can share and revoke file access at any time.
Works across operating systems
Google Sites works in the browser on PC, Mac and Linux computers. Teachers, students, and parents don't need buy or download software.
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Intuitive editing
Google Sites uses an intuitive editor for creating and updating sites that makes it as easy as writing a document. Drop in all sorts of gadgets from documents to videos to images to shared calendars and more.
Template gallery
Get a jump start on your site with one of the pre-built templates, or create a privately shared template gallery for your institution/class/faculty with sites customized for your needs.
Powerful search
Project and team sites are only useful when you can find the information you’re looking for. Built-in search powered by Google’s search engine makes it easy and fast to find the pages you need.
Storage
Google Sites comes with loads of storage. Your school gets a quota of 10GB + 500MB per employee for attaching files, and documents, calendars, and videos embedded from Google Docs don’t count against this quota.
Designed for security and reliability
Google Sites is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, real-time file save, simultaneous replicated storage for your sites, built-in disaster recovery and fine-grained sharing controls that let you share your work with the right people. Learn more
Vault
Add archiving and e-discovery to Google Apps for Educatiion
Vault is optional and adds archiving, e-discovery and information governance capabilities
Google Apps Vault helps protect your school from legal risks.
Search the archive for relevant email and chat messages.
Preserve messages beyond their standard retention periods.
Export messages for further review and analysis.
Retention policies
Define retention policies that are automatically applied to your email and chat messages based on rules you choose.
Email and chat archiving
Your email and chat messages are archived and retained according to your policies, preventing inadvertent deletions.
E-discovery
Be prepared for internal investigations, litigation, and compliance audits with powerful search tools that help you find and retrieve relevant email and chat messages.
Legal hold
Place legal holds on users as needed. Email and chat messages can't be deleted by users when they're placed on hold.
Export
Export specific email and chat messages to standard formats for additional processing and review.
Audits
Run reports on user activity and actions in the archive. Searches, message views, exports and more are shown.
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Information Governance
Google Apps Vault allows you to reduce risk and costs associated with litigation and compliance audits as well as disciplinary investigations. At our discounted Education-only rates, you can add capabilities that help your organization be prepared for these situations.
Archive and manage in place
A single archive for email and chat messages where the data is managed in-place. Governance policies are applied directly to the data store, eliminating the need to duplicate data in a separate archive which helps reduce the risks associated with data movement and spoliation. A robust audit trail provides complete visibility across the archive.
Retain business documents
Email and chat retention policies allow schools to define standard retention policies for Gmail and chat messages. Once a message reaches the end of the retention period, disposition is automatic to ensure compliance with retention policies. The automated process ensures that no data subject to a legal hold is deleted and reduces the risks of spoliation and noncompliance. Message holds help ensure email and chat messages can be preserved beyond their standard retention period for a legal matter or an investigation.
Find relevant documents
eDiscovery tools allow authorized users to search through the archive for data that may be relevant to a specific matter or investigation. Google search algorithms can search domain wide, across large amounts of email in the archive and return results quickly. From the search results, authorized users can define and manage collections of message search results and collaborate with others to manage them. Email can be exported from the archive for further review and processing.
Designed for security
Google Apps Vault is designed for security and reliability with features like encrypted connections to Google’s servers, simultaneous replicated storage for your messages, built-in disaster recovery and sharing controls that let your users collaborate securely on matters. Learn more
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Apps comes with even more handy features and tools.
Apps Marketplace
Whether you need student tools, teaching aids, or administrator utilities, the Apps Marketplace, with a dedicated education category, helps you discover, purchase and deploy web apps that integrate with Google Apps for Education.
Google Moderator
Google Moderator allows you to create a series about anything that you are interested in discussing with your class or school and open it up for people to submit questions, ideas, or suggestions.
YouTube for Schools
Educate, engage, and inspire your students with video.YouTube for Schools brings the power of video to your classrooms for free. Access thousands of free high quality educational videos on YouTube in a controlled environment.
Even more products*
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Google+Real-life sharing rethought for the web for adults and students aged 13+ -
ChromeA fast, free and secure browser and operating system. -
TranslateView web pages in other languages -
Google Apps ScriptJavaScript cloud scripting language for task automation -
Custom SearchCreate a customized search experience for your community -
MapsView maps and directions -
VoiceOne number for multiple phones, online voicemail and cheap calling -
BloggerShare your life online with a blog - it's quick, easy and free -
ScholarSearch of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. -
BooksSearch and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide -
CodeFind documentation for developing with Google's tools and APIs -
Picasa Web AlbumsShare photos with friends and family, or explore public photos
*Services that are not part of the core Google Apps suite are not covered by the Google Apps support terms and are not covered by the Google Apps uptime guarantee SLA. Services may not be available in all areas and are subject to change without notice. For more information, please visit the Technical Support Services Guidelines.
