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Exciting new partnerships in the deeper learning community of practice The Amplified IT is proud to announce three new strategic partnerships to help us engage and support powerful, existing communities of educator practice around Backpack for Google Drive — our student portfolio solution for 21st century learning and school district transformation built to integrate seamlessly […]

With our minds off the summer projects and hopefully user provisioning humming away without issue, School IT administrators attention turns to the next big annual milestone – testing. To assess where students start off at the beginning of the year and to get a baseline for growth throughout the school year. Although all schools have […]

Over the summer most IT teams are eyeballs-deep in projects that couldn’t be performed over a long weekend or during the traditional school year. The focus is on high level, large projects that impact users as a whole without them knowing it. This could be the configuration of a new firewall, a server upgrade, or […]

School is fast approaching and soon (if not already) students will be firing up Chromebooks in classrooms across your district. You can become the hero that your district didn’t even know they needed! Navigating websites, creating Google Drive files, accessing Google Workspace services will be a common task for students. So how can Google Workspace […]

So you’re going 1-to-1? With a new school year quickly approaching, I’ve been talking to a lot of people who are in the process of going 1-to-1 with Chromebooks, or are planning on doing so in the next year or two. In the conversation I always get asked, so what is it really like? I […]

As technology teams get ready for the new school year and the annual rollover of moving users move from one grade to the next, it is easy to keep doing things the way they’ve been done year after year. After all, if it’s working, why change it? One major argument for change is the fluidity […]

Google has released new changes on how some Admin console settings can be applied. Here’s a chance to catch up with Google for Education Training Lead, Tom Woods, to find out which ones you should know about and what flexibility these granular settings will provide. Google’s recent addition of granular settings adjustment by Group membership […]

For students and teachers, summer means time off, but school IT departments take this time to perform significant infrastructure changes. Minimal staff and students on site is a chance to do the things that they won’t have the opportunity to accomplish when school is in full swing. Management of end-user devices is often a focus […]

Like a medieval city, the structure and options contained within Google Groups settings have clearly had to serve many masters and live through many different phases of redesign over their long and storied history, leaving behind a bit of a hot, tangled mess.   As part of modernizing this somewhat-stinky corner of Google Workspace, Google […]

In more and more districts, we’re seeing a shift towards the adoption of Google Classroom as the Learning Management System, or LMS, of choice. Owing to its lightweight price tag (spoiler alert: free), its minimalist and effective user experience, and the fact that it streamlines a teachers’ management and feedback on Google Drive based student […]