August 2020 In May 2020, Google announced the new Groups settings in General availability along with a rollout schedule which end users would see the modernized user interface. Unless disabled by an administrator, all users should now be seeing the updated version of Google Groups. Although it is welcomed to have a new user interface […]
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 […]
Communication is key in any industry and especially as it relates to business processes happening in schools. From it’s days of “Google Talk” to “G Chat”, Google Hangouts has always been viewed as a simple chat interface. With the introduction Hangouts Chat we are seeing functionality that is far beyond just sending emoji’s to a […]
As an admin, you’re often getting requests to provide various types of permissions/access to a small set of users in an OU that may currently have the service otherwise disabled. For example, you may get a special request to allow a single middle school class to have access to YouTube for a project, even though […]