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 […]
It is funny even with as many hours as we all put into the Google Workspace environment there always seems to be daily things that show up to surprise, confuse, and excite us. In this post, I will share a few of those things we have found in the past few weeks that may do […]
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 […]
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 […]