Put Your Students in the Cloud: Google Apps for Education

Submitted By: jlee
Lead Presenter: Jay Lee
Scheduled For: Tuesday @ 09:00 AM in Water Oaks II
Session Type: Session - Software Demo
Preferred Paper Track: Software Demo - No Paper Required
Target Audience: IT Staff and Faculty

Abstract:

Google Apps offers free email hosting, document collaboration and calendaring to educational institutions. Learn how Google Apps saved PBU's IT department time and money while offering students a lifelong .edu address, Gmail-based webmail, more storage space and better reliability than our old self-hosted system. We'll also show off Google Docs, an online competitor to MS Office with excellent group collaboration capabilities and Google Calendar, a great resource for personal, group and organizational scheduling. Finally, we'll touch on advanced features allowing single sign-on with your existing student account system and automatic provisioning of new student accounts. Come see how Google Apps is revolutionizing computing at PBU!