Google for Education
Empowering teachers and students
DfE Funding for Digital Education Platforms
The DfE have recently announced funding for schools to set up Digital Education Platform for remote learning with Microsoft or Google, to help facilitate remote teaching and learning during the Covid-19 pandemic. AdEPT Education are an approved Microsoft and Google partner, and can partner with you to get set up and claim the funding. We’ve prepared a short blog post, with everything you need to know to get started, which you can read below.
Soho Parish Primary School
In this case study, we discuss the specific needs of Soho Parish Primary School, London, and how they were able to get Google Workspace for Education working in a way specific to them for the benefit of the while school.
Google Workspace Features
A Suite of school transforming core services, and much more, that includes:
- Gmail & Calendar – school-wide email and calendar systems
- Drive – store your files securely in the cloud and access them at any time from any device
- Classroom – set homework online and communicate with students
- Forms – create quizzes and surveys to collect and analyse responses
- Sheets, Docs and Slides – create spreadsheets, documents and presentations
- Meet– connect virtually through secure video calls
Benefits
• Tailored education-focused applications from Google
• Access anytime, anywhere from any device
• Improve learning outcomes with built-in accessibility features and learning tools
• Work together with real-time co-authoring, autosaving and easy sharing
• Simple to set up and use
• Comprehensive safeguarding and cyber security protections
• Syncing of existing AdEPT Education USO accounts
