Getting Started with Google for Education
Ensuring the success of new technology in your organisation involves more than a well-planned deployment. Once the technology is in place comes the next hurdle: actually encouraging teachers to start using it. For most, the hardest part is just getting started.
Some of you will have taken part in the training provided with the Digital Education Platform Funding. However, we’re now partnering with Google to bring you free, bite-sized ‘getting started’ tutorial videos. Getting Started with Google for Education is an 8-week email series delivered to users’ inboxes every Tuesday. Each email consists of 1 lesson with basic training videos that take less than 10 minutes to complete. Perfect for teachers’ CPD.
Encourage your colleagues to register here and feel free to share the link with partner schools.
Government-funded support is no longer available for schools and colleges to get set up a digital education platform. The closing date for all applications was 30 November 2021.
If your school would still like to have access to a digital education platform, you’ll still be able to sign up and apply directly for either a Google Workspace Fundamentals or Office 365 platform, free of charge.
If your school needs technical support for a new platform set up, you’ll need to fund this alongside other standard ICT support spending.
You should apply if your school:
- does not have access to a digital education platform
- has access to Microsoft 365 Education or Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals, but is not yet set up to assign work and communicate with pupils and students.