What is Google Workspace for Education?

Google Workspace for Education is a comprehensive set of services and tools developed by Google which are designed and tailored for schools and other education establishments such as home schools. These tools and services allow integrated collaboration and streamlined instructions, that keep pupil learning safe.

Google for Education is available in several 'flavours' to meet your schools needs:

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals

Provides schools with the tools needed to aid teaching and learning in the classroom and from home. These tools include Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Docs, Google Chat and Google Forms.

Google Workspace for Education Standard

In addition to Fundamentals, Standard provides advanced security features, whilst offering enhance administration controls

Teaching and Learning Upgrade

Additional enhancements to video-communication, with Classroom add-ons.

Google Workspace for Education Plus

All the features of Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, plus additional features relation to certain services such as attendance tracking within Google Meet.

Education Fundamentals is free to all qualifying education establishments.

What is Google Classroom?

 
Google Classrooms makes teaching more productive and meaningful. Allowing pupils and teachers organise assignments and collaborate with each other, whilst fostering better communication between all parties..

As a streamlined and easy-to-use tool Google Classroom helps teachers manage homework, create lessons, assign coursework, mark and send feedback to pupils all from one place.

Why Choose Google Classroom?

• It's very easy to set up allowing teachers and staff to add pupils directly, or a shared code can be sent requesting a pupil joins.

• With the ability for teachers and staff to assign paperless work, review assignments and mark pupil homework from a central point, valuable time is saved.

• As a pupil or student, they have the ability to see all of their assignments, coursework, projects and homework, all with all relevant classroom materials, like documents, fact sheets, photos, videos and much more. All filed within dedicated and easily accessible Google Drive folders.

• Google Classrooms also allows enhanced communication between teachers, staff and pupils. Teacher or staff can send announcement to start a class topic or discussion to pupils in the classroom or those who may be working from home. Student can also share resources and responses with each other, or a member of staff, again within the classroom or working from home.