Google Apps

Special Education Edition

Instructional Services Center

Greenwood School District 50

David A. Windham | Data Manager ISC | gwd50.org | 864-941-5485

What are Google Apps?

They are a suite of web applications made available as cloud hosted software as service that can be administered for a group of users at a particular domain name

AdSense, Alerts, Analytics, Blogger, Books, Calendar, Chrome Sync, Contacts, Custom Search, Docs, FeedBurner, Finance, Friend Connect, Fusion Tables, Gmail, Google+, Groups, Location History, Maps, Merchant Center, Moderator, News, Orkut, Picasa, Play Music, Profile, Sites, Talk, Task, Voice, Wallet / Checkout, Web History, Webmaster Tools, & YouTube

And countless other third party applications via the Apps Marketplace https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/

Google Apps We Use

I'm only going to cover three

Mail, Calendar, & Drive

Just some tips and tricks

Documentation

http://learn.googleapps.com/

Google Suppport

https://support.google.com/

Search

Search is your Friend

Search Tips from Google - http://www.google.com/intl/ALL/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html Advanced Search - http://www.google.com/advanced_search

Don’t forget the most powerful of all Google tools: Search.

Search - operators - subject:IEP is:starred from:windhamd@gwd50.com -work deadline OR “due date” is:unread

Mail

Settings

Calendar

Drive

Docs Slides Sheets Forms Drawings Scripts Tables Folders

Don't

Evil

Thank You

the entire presentation is online @ http://davidawindham.com/gwd/gapps/

the source code is @ https://github.com/windhamdavid/gwd

And I’ve shared all of my notes and source files on Drive

David A. Windham | Data Manager ISC | gwd50.org | 864-941-5485

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