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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2022

 December 13th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

December 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — December Deep Dive: Chrome Corner: Common Questions & In The Weeds

 December 1st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Chrome Corner: Common Questions & In The Weeds

In this session, we’ll start with higher-level common Chrome questions, but then also descend into the weeds for more complicated, detailed work. Come along as we journey through the hundreds of Chrome settings and ask “what is this?” and “is this new?”. This deep dive will be less “training” and more “geek-out work group”.

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Collaborative Product Showcase: Teq – Give Educators the Gift of Time And Money!

 November 17th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Product Showcase: Teq - Give Educators the Gift of Time and Money!

A New Discount for NAGTC Members! Lindsey Kane from Teq will discuss how using OTIS for Educators for your PD needs will gift your educators untold time and resources. Teachers agree that one-off PD experiences are not effective, yet over 50% of teachers say that’s exactly what they receive -- and 12% say they received NO PD on edtech in the past year! Address these issues and more with an easy to implement and affordable solution from Teq: OTIS for Educators!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2022

 November 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

November 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — November Deep Dive: Getting Started with GAM

 November 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Getting Started with GAM

Have you ever asked “Can I do this in the admin console?” only to find that the answer is “No, but you can do it in GAM”? What even is GAM? Come to this session to learn what GAM is, how to install GAM in your Google Cloud Platform, and how to leverage some of its handiest commands to save you unimaginable amounts of time!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2022

 October 18th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

October 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — October Deep Dive: Getting a Grasp on your Google Groups

 October 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Getting a Grasp on your Google Groups

Google Groups have gained incredible functionality as of late, including even the ability to configure services and settings by Group. But are your Groups ready? In this session, we review Google Groups best practices, round up all Google Group updates over the past few years, and dive into Group review and cleanup. By the end of this session, you will have an understanding of the full administrative power of Google Groups, and how they can help you manage your own domain!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2022

 September 20th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

September 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — September Deep Dive: Google Updates Replay: The Apptacular Edition

 September 1st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Google Updates Replay: The Apptacular Edition

In this month’s Deep Dive, we review the big app-related updates from the last few months. From Classroom Add-Ons, to Marketplace Allowlists by OU, to the game changer update of configuring Chrome apps and extensions by Group - we’ll cover it all!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2022

 August 16th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

August 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — August Deep Dive: Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals – Admin Best Practices

 August 4th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals - Admin Best Practices

The Admin Console has thousands of policy settings and controls. Do you have them all set correctly for your K-12 environment? In this session we will look at common pitfalls and best practices for getting your domain setup to educational best practices for staff and students.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2022

 July 19th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

July 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. A look at Google updates, their impact, and what actions admins need to take are discussed.

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Collaborative — Product Showcase: Little SIS – Your admin console for Google Classroom

 July 14th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Product Showcase: Little SIS - Your admin console for Google Classroom

Come learn how Little SIS can help you and your admins be successful with implementing Google Classroom. I’ll go over the insights and metrics you and your school staff can see for your Classroom usage, as well as actions you can take. I’ll also do a high-level demo of the Little SIS Premium (the classroom syncing) portion of our tool, which allows you to create classrooms for teachers, and sync rosters and guardians.

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Collaborative — July Deep Dive: Preparing for back to school Google Admin Checklist

 July 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Preparing for back to school Google Admin Checklist

In the last session of our 3-part summer series, we prepare for teachers coming back and the eventual rush of the first day of school. We continue on our Google Admin tasks journey by diving into User and Classroom provisioning, Chromebook deployment and getting ready for staff training.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – June 2022

 June 21st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

June 2022: Google Monthly Updates + Anywhere School Recap

The June Google Updates Stream — Where we heard from Carl Behmer and the recap of the Anywhere School announcements but first explore Shared Drives in their own OUs, Chrome Audit Logs finally get data and did you see Google's email about your "official" account storage total and timeline? It's not necessarily July 1st, 2022!

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Collaborative Live Watch Party – The Anywhere School 2022

 June 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Live Watch Party - The Anywhere School 2022

We will be hosting an exclusive Collaborative Live Watch Party during Google’s The Anywhere School event on June 7th from 1pm to 1:45pm EST. The Watch Party will be held virtually on Google Meet during the Google event and we’ll be reacting live to the announcements.

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Collaborative — June Deep Dive: Google Admin Summer Tasks

 June 2nd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Admin Summer Tasks

We continue on our Google Admin tasks journey in this session. Last month we talked about end-of-the-year tasks and now we get geared up for “summer tasks”. A focus will be reviewed on Chromebook inventory clean-up and enrollment, account rollover, and user and data clean-up. Hands-on examples of making these tasks easier will be explored.

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Collaborative — Partner Showcase: Lightspeed – Understanding how to maximize the success of online educational resources & student safety

 May 24th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Partner Showcase: Lightspeed - Understanding how to maximize the success of online educational resources & student safety

With rising learning gaps, student safety concerns, and the need for actionable data, visibility into your student’s online activity is more important than ever. Join Lightspeed Systems for a session on leveraging their suite of technologies to ensure student safety, efficacy of online learning, and using data analytics to help close the learning gap. The presentation will cover content filtering, classroom management, student safety management, analytics, and device management.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – May 2022

 May 17th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

May 2022: Google Monthly Updates

This is a 1.5 hour stream where we'll talk about Google and Chrome updates from the last month and take a look at the brand new Account Storage admin console tools.

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Collaborative — May Deep Dive: End of school year checklist for Google Admins

 May 5th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: End of school year checklist for Google Admins

In this session we dive into what a typical Google Admin’s “end of school year checklist” consists of and explore settings, tools and processes that make a chaotic time of the year more manageable. A review of updates and upcoming changes will be discussed as we start thinking about summer maintenance and improvements.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Chrome turns v100

 April 20th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Chrome turns v100

In this bonus stream, we celebrate Chrome turning v100 by reviewing v100 updates, looking back at our favorite features, bugs, busts, and game-changers. It’s a party but an informational party!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – April 2022

 April 19th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

April 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The April Google Updates Stream — Where we can actually hear the presenters, DLP and Form Uploads is improved and we're still getting used to this new Audit Logs experience.

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Collaborative — April 2022 Deep Dive: App Management Best Practices

 April 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: App Management Best Practices

In this session we dive into the world of Google and Chrome “apps”. There are so many kinds of apps that it gets confusing. We will review the types of apps, how they work, how to manage them and discuss general best practices around app management.

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Collaborative — App Approval Collaborative Panel

 April 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: App Approval Collaborative Panel

In this session, we explore the current world of “apps” and then talk to Collaborative member panelists about their App Approval process and management. Attendees will be able to participate in polls throughout the session and see what other schools are doing with their app management.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Down the Gopher for Chrome Hole We Go!

 March 30th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Down the Gopher for Chrome Hole We Go!

Come on down as we go through how to use Gopher for Chrome, including Gopher Buddy, and the tips and tricks for each. If you have specific questions or scenarios you’d like us to talk about, please email andreafrendo@amplifiedit.com

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – March 2022

 March 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

March 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The March Updates Stream — where we get geeky with the brand new Chrome Remote Desktop function, talk about Chips (and CASO) and cheer about more cells in Sheets!

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Collaborative — March 2022 Deep Dive: Chrome Device Deployment

 March 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Chrome Device Deployment

As a follow-up to our December Deep Dive on Chrome Management Best Practices, in this session, we cover what we listed as “other considerations”. We’ll discuss device selection and what factors to consider when purchasing, device enrollment and deployment best practices, and explore what a good device life cycle looks like.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Getting to know the Collaborative Community Platform

 February 23rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Getting to know the Collaborative Community Platform

In this session, we explore the new Collaborative Community platform that was launched last year. By the end of this session, you will have a completed profile, a customized view and workflow, and an understanding of how to find, contribute, follow, and get notified for relevant content. We’ll end with some favorite tips and tricks and time for Q & A.

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(POSTPONED) Collaborative Bonus Stream — SysCloud Backup for Google Classroom

 February 17th, 2022 - POSTPONED

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: SysCloud Backup for Google Classroom

This stream has been postponed. An announcement in the Collaborative will be made when we schedule a new date.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – February 2022

 February 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

February 2022: Google Monthly Updates

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Collaborative — February 2022 Deep Dive: Laying the foundation for Google Workspace Security Best Practices

 February 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Laying the foundation for Google Workspace Security Best Practices

In this deep dive, we’ll review key domain and service security settings and approaches. From account settings to sharing practices and beyond, we’ll discuss the importance of having a good security foundation in your admin console. We’ll end this 1.5-hour session by hearing directly from Collaborative members about how they’ve dealt with implementing 2 Step Verification in their own organizations.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – January 2022

 January 18th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

January 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The January Updates Stream — where we're light on updates but heavy on special guests! Today's session discusses an important account storage timeline change, a nice improvement for getting devices to apply updates, and oh yeah, there's still some Meet and Classroom features on the horizon Google promised us!

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Collaborative — January 2022 Deep Dive: Google Updates: A Year in Review

 January 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Updates: 2021 Year in Review

In this deep dive we review the important Google, Chrome and Amplified IT updates from 2021 and discuss the necessary actions and impact they have on our Google environment. This is an extended 1.5 hour live stream edition.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2021

 December 21st, 2021

For Collaborative Members

December 2021 Google Monthly Updates

The December Updates Stream — where we say goodbye to 2021 with Chrome v96 updates and issues, check in on how the new community is going and end with some big paid edition features.

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Collaborative — December 2021 Deep Dive: Chrome Management Best Practices

 December 9th, 2021 (Changed from Dec 2nd)

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Chrome Management Best Practices

Chrome Management in the admin console has changed quite a bit over the years and so has schools’ environments and needs. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of Chromebook deployment, Chrome User & Browser settings and review tools to help manage devices. There will be time at the end for Q & A.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream — Classroom Insights with BigQuery

 November 30th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Bonus Stream: Classroom Insights with BigQuery

Recently Google began providing audit logs for Classroom. For Workspace Plus and Standard customers, the logs are accessible to exports to BigQuery. Join the Onboarding & Support team as they walk through getting started with BigQuery and how to leverage Classroom logs and connect it to Data Studio.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2021

 November 16th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

November 2021 Google Monthly Updates

***This month is 1.5 hours. The first hour will be our normal Updates stream. In the last 30 minutes, we will be reviewing the brand new Collaborative platform and the next steps to move over!***

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Collaborative — November 2021 Deep Dive: Google Workspace Plus Best Practices

 November 4th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Workspace Plus Best Practices

You have Workspace Plus! But what do you do with it? Is Workspace Plus just more settings you have to configure for your end users? In this session, we'll review the Plus tools that truly help YOU as the admin. We'll also provide tips and tricks to keep you efficient and avoid missteps. Join us to learn the best practice superpowers of the Plus Admin.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2021

 October 19th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

October 2021 Google Monthly Updates

The October Updates stream — The stream where Google doubles down on students not being able to unenroll themselves in Classroom, Google Classroom Meets finally get what we've been promised and a new "read-only" Device role is available. Plus you're going to want to check out these Chrome version cycle reminders!

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Collaborative — October 2021 Deep Dive: Admin Console Best Practices

 October 7th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Admin Console Best Practices

“Do I have my admin console set up right?” If you’ve never asked yourself that, are you really a Google for Education admin? Most of us are only in the admin console when there’s a problem and then we put a band-aid fix on it, call it good and move onto our next task. In this session we will cover the most common missteps we see in domains and provide a high level review of the key areas to review.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2021

 September 21st, 2021

For Collaborative Members

September 2021 Updates: Classroom Audit, End Meeting for all and more

The stream where we end all meetings in our domain, catch kids unenrolling themselves from Classroom and oh yeah, what in the world is up with YouTube after those Sept 1st (age-based setting) changes? We uncover what we think Google's big "game changer" was and get schools thinking about how they will now set up the YouTube environment.

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Collaborative — September 2021 Deep Dive: Summer Update Jams

 September 2nd, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Summer Update Jams

In this session, we rewind the Google updates from Summer and review the most important changes. On vacation? Have other projects? Staff turnover? Grab a chair, settle in, and let’s all review and reflect as a group so we can start off the school year feeling confident about Google & Chrome updates.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream: Age-Based Setting Impact

 August 26th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Bonus Stream: Age-Based Setting Impact

This is an additional monthly live stream for Collaborative members. We will be providing another opportunity to discuss the new Age-Based Setting and the impact it will bring on September 1st. All Google Admins need to configure this setting to avoid service disruption on September 1st. An overview of the setting, configuration, impact, and Q & A will be discussed in this 30-minute stream.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2021

 August 17th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

August 2021 Updates: SSO Profiles, Chrome v92 & Co-Hosts

The stream where Andrea orders pizza, we review our Collaborative benefits, get a reminder about important upcoming deadlines and we see the Chrome web store giving us an app approval feature - but is it too late to use? All that and more on this month's Google Updates stream!

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Collaborative — August 2021 Deep Dive: Vault

 August 5th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Diving into Vault

This month we focus on Google Vault. Sure, Vault isn't new but when is the last time you really dove into it? We've got a new interface, more retention policy options, and more services are covered. Are you following best practices? Do you even know your retention policy? Should we look into actually setting a retention policy with the account storage changes coming next summer? Let's discuss this all on the August Deep Dive!

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Collaborative Stream – Explore Classroom syncing options with Clever and Little SIS Premium

 August 4th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC: Explore Classroom syncing options with Clever and Little SIS Premium

Join our Onboarding team to learn more about Google’s Clever sync for Workspace Plus, how it works and how it compares to Little SIS Premium’s Classroom sync and admin features.

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NAGTC – Security update for Google Drive & Age-based setting

 July 26th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Additional Stream: Security update for Google Drive & Age-based setting

We are adding an additional live stream on July 26th (2pm EST) to support members with the Google Drive Security Update change and the Age-based setting.

Security Update 2:15 - 18:50
Q & A 18:50 - 29:00
Age-based setting 29:00 - 37:40
Q & A 37:40 - 53:42

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2021

 July 20th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

July 2021 Updates: Link sharing, Age-based setting, the Anywhere School Recap

The stream where we finally get some answers and insight into the Link Sharing Security Update. And, did you miss the Anywhere School Event? No worries, we recap those updates and timelines too. And did you catch that security keynote during that event? Or maybe you remember getting an email from Google about the new Age-based Setting? This is super important and admins must take an action to ensure staff don't come at you with pitchforks after Sept 1st. And Clippy makes an appearance? Watch it all on our July Google Updates stream!

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Collaborative — July 2021 Deep Dive: The Life cycle of a Perfect Google Classroom Experience

 June 30th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Amplified IT’s Life Cycle of a Perfect Google Classroom Experience

If you could “have it your way” and create the perfect Google Classroom experience for your organization, what would it look like? Auto-provisioning? Key insights available currently not available Google Admin console? From creating a seamless Google Classroom experience for your teachers to clean up after the school year ends- come see start to finish how you can make the 21-22 school year the best yet. We will take a look at Classroom updates for Google Workspace, the roadmap, and get a demo of Little SIS Premium, launching this summer.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream — Diving into Chrome devices and trends

 June 17th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Additional Stream: Diving into Chrome devices and trends

In this session, CDW will dive into K12 device trends, latest hardware road map and supply outlooks, along with a round table discussion with the group.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2022

December 13th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

December 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — December Deep Dive: Chrome Corner: Common Questions & In The Weeds

Collaborative — December Deep Dive: Chrome Corner: Common Questions & In The Weeds

December 1st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Chrome Corner: Common Questions & In The Weeds

In this session, we’ll start with higher-level common Chrome questions, but then also descend into the weeds for more complicated, detailed work. Come along as we journey through the hundreds of Chrome settings and ask “what is this?” and “is this new?”. This deep dive will be less “training” and more “geek-out work group”.

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Collaborative Product Showcase: Teq – Give Educators the Gift of Time And Money!

Collaborative Product Showcase: Teq – Give Educators the Gift of Time And Money!

November 17th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Product Showcase: Teq - Give Educators the Gift of Time and Money!

A New Discount for NAGTC Members! Lindsey Kane from Teq will discuss how using OTIS for Educators for your PD needs will gift your educators untold time and resources. Teachers agree that one-off PD experiences are not effective, yet over 50% of teachers say that’s exactly what they receive -- and 12% say they received NO PD on edtech in the past year! Address these issues and more with an easy to implement and affordable solution from Teq: OTIS for Educators!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2022

November 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

November 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — November Deep Dive: Getting Started with GAM

Collaborative — November Deep Dive: Getting Started with GAM

November 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Getting Started with GAM

Have you ever asked “Can I do this in the admin console?” only to find that the answer is “No, but you can do it in GAM”? What even is GAM? Come to this session to learn what GAM is, how to install GAM in your Google Cloud Platform, and how to leverage some of its handiest commands to save you unimaginable amounts of time!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2022

October 18th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

October 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — October Deep Dive: Getting a Grasp on your Google Groups

Collaborative — October Deep Dive: Getting a Grasp on your Google Groups

October 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Getting a Grasp on your Google Groups

Google Groups have gained incredible functionality as of late, including even the ability to configure services and settings by Group. But are your Groups ready? In this session, we review Google Groups best practices, round up all Google Group updates over the past few years, and dive into Group review and cleanup. By the end of this session, you will have an understanding of the full administrative power of Google Groups, and how they can help you manage your own domain!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2022

September 20th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

September 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — September Deep Dive: Google Updates Replay: The Apptacular Edition

Collaborative — September Deep Dive: Google Updates Replay: The Apptacular Edition

September 1st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Google Updates Replay: The Apptacular Edition

In this month’s Deep Dive, we review the big app-related updates from the last few months. From Classroom Add-Ons, to Marketplace Allowlists by OU, to the game changer update of configuring Chrome apps and extensions by Group - we’ll cover it all!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2022

August 16th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

August 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. Join us for a look at Google updates, their impact, and what admin actions admins need to take.

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Collaborative — August Deep Dive: Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals – Admin Best Practices

Collaborative — August Deep Dive: Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals – Admin Best Practices

August 4th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals - Admin Best Practices

The Admin Console has thousands of policy settings and controls. Do you have them all set correctly for your K-12 environment? In this session we will look at common pitfalls and best practices for getting your domain setup to educational best practices for staff and students.

Tickets & details

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2022

July 19th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

July 2022: Google Monthly Updates

North American Google Technical Collaborative (NAGTC) Google Updates - This stream is for members of the NAGTC. A look at Google updates, their impact, and what actions admins need to take are discussed.

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Collaborative — Product Showcase: Little SIS – Your admin console for Google Classroom

Collaborative — Product Showcase: Little SIS – Your admin console for Google Classroom

July 14th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Product Showcase: Little SIS - Your admin console for Google Classroom

Come learn how Little SIS can help you and your admins be successful with implementing Google Classroom. I’ll go over the insights and metrics you and your school staff can see for your Classroom usage, as well as actions you can take. I’ll also do a high-level demo of the Little SIS Premium (the classroom syncing) portion of our tool, which allows you to create classrooms for teachers, and sync rosters and guardians.

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Collaborative — July Deep Dive: Preparing for back to school Google Admin Checklist

Collaborative — July Deep Dive: Preparing for back to school Google Admin Checklist

July 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Preparing for back to school Google Admin Checklist

In the last session of our 3-part summer series, we prepare for teachers coming back and the eventual rush of the first day of school. We continue on our Google Admin tasks journey by diving into User and Classroom provisioning, Chromebook deployment and getting ready for staff training.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – June 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – June 2022

June 21st, 2022

For Collaborative Members

June 2022: Google Monthly Updates + Anywhere School Recap

The June Google Updates Stream — Where we heard from Carl Behmer and the recap of the Anywhere School announcements but first explore Shared Drives in their own OUs, Chrome Audit Logs finally get data and did you see Google's email about your "official" account storage total and timeline? It's not necessarily July 1st, 2022!

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Collaborative Live Watch Party – The Anywhere School 2022

Collaborative Live Watch Party – The Anywhere School 2022

June 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Live Watch Party - The Anywhere School 2022

We will be hosting an exclusive Collaborative Live Watch Party during Google’s The Anywhere School event on June 7th from 1pm to 1:45pm EST. The Watch Party will be held virtually on Google Meet during the Google event and we’ll be reacting live to the announcements.

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Collaborative — June Deep Dive: Google Admin Summer Tasks

Collaborative — June Deep Dive: Google Admin Summer Tasks

June 2nd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Admin Summer Tasks

We continue on our Google Admin tasks journey in this session. Last month we talked about end-of-the-year tasks and now we get geared up for “summer tasks”. A focus will be reviewed on Chromebook inventory clean-up and enrollment, account rollover, and user and data clean-up. Hands-on examples of making these tasks easier will be explored.

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Collaborative — Partner Showcase: Lightspeed – Understanding how to maximize the success of online educational resources & student safety

Collaborative — Partner Showcase: Lightspeed – Understanding how to maximize the success of online educational resources & student safety

May 24th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Partner Showcase: Lightspeed - Understanding how to maximize the success of online educational resources & student safety

With rising learning gaps, student safety concerns, and the need for actionable data, visibility into your student’s online activity is more important than ever. Join Lightspeed Systems for a session on leveraging their suite of technologies to ensure student safety, efficacy of online learning, and using data analytics to help close the learning gap. The presentation will cover content filtering, classroom management, student safety management, analytics, and device management.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – May 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – May 2022

May 17th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

May 2022: Google Monthly Updates

This is a 1.5 hour stream where we'll talk about Google and Chrome updates from the last month and take a look at the brand new Account Storage admin console tools.

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Collaborative — May Deep Dive: End of school year checklist for Google Admins

Collaborative — May Deep Dive: End of school year checklist for Google Admins

May 5th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: End of school year checklist for Google Admins

In this session we dive into what a typical Google Admin’s “end of school year checklist” consists of and explore settings, tools and processes that make a chaotic time of the year more manageable. A review of updates and upcoming changes will be discussed as we start thinking about summer maintenance and improvements.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Chrome turns v100

Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Chrome turns v100

April 20th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Chrome turns v100

In this bonus stream, we celebrate Chrome turning v100 by reviewing v100 updates, looking back at our favorite features, bugs, busts, and game-changers. It’s a party but an informational party!

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – April 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – April 2022

April 19th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

April 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The April Google Updates Stream — Where we can actually hear the presenters, DLP and Form Uploads is improved and we're still getting used to this new Audit Logs experience.

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Collaborative — April 2022 Deep Dive: App Management Best Practices

Collaborative — April 2022 Deep Dive: App Management Best Practices

April 7th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: App Management Best Practices

In this session we dive into the world of Google and Chrome “apps”. There are so many kinds of apps that it gets confusing. We will review the types of apps, how they work, how to manage them and discuss general best practices around app management.

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Collaborative — App Approval Collaborative Panel

Collaborative — App Approval Collaborative Panel

April 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: App Approval Collaborative Panel

In this session, we explore the current world of “apps” and then talk to Collaborative member panelists about their App Approval process and management. Attendees will be able to participate in polls throughout the session and see what other schools are doing with their app management.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Down the Gopher for Chrome Hole We Go!

Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Down the Gopher for Chrome Hole We Go!

March 30th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Down the Gopher for Chrome Hole We Go!

Come on down as we go through how to use Gopher for Chrome, including Gopher Buddy, and the tips and tricks for each. If you have specific questions or scenarios you’d like us to talk about, please email andreafrendo@amplifiedit.com

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – March 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – March 2022

March 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

March 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The March Updates Stream — where we get geeky with the brand new Chrome Remote Desktop function, talk about Chips (and CASO) and cheer about more cells in Sheets!

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Collaborative — March 2022 Deep Dive: Chrome Device Deployment

Collaborative — March 2022 Deep Dive: Chrome Device Deployment

March 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Chrome Device Deployment

As a follow-up to our December Deep Dive on Chrome Management Best Practices, in this session, we cover what we listed as “other considerations”. We’ll discuss device selection and what factors to consider when purchasing, device enrollment and deployment best practices, and explore what a good device life cycle looks like.

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Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Getting to know the Collaborative Community Platform

Collaborative — Bonus Stream: Getting to know the Collaborative Community Platform

February 23rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: Getting to know the Collaborative Community Platform

In this session, we explore the new Collaborative Community platform that was launched last year. By the end of this session, you will have a completed profile, a customized view and workflow, and an understanding of how to find, contribute, follow, and get notified for relevant content. We’ll end with some favorite tips and tricks and time for Q & A.

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(POSTPONED) Collaborative Bonus Stream — SysCloud Backup for Google Classroom

(POSTPONED) Collaborative Bonus Stream — SysCloud Backup for Google Classroom

February 17th, 2022 - POSTPONED

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC Bonus Stream: SysCloud Backup for Google Classroom

This stream has been postponed. An announcement in the Collaborative will be made when we schedule a new date.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – February 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – February 2022

February 15th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

February 2022: Google Monthly Updates

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Collaborative — February 2022 Deep Dive: Laying the foundation for Google Workspace Security Best Practices

Collaborative — February 2022 Deep Dive: Laying the foundation for Google Workspace Security Best Practices

February 3rd, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Laying the foundation for Google Workspace Security Best Practices

In this deep dive, we’ll review key domain and service security settings and approaches. From account settings to sharing practices and beyond, we’ll discuss the importance of having a good security foundation in your admin console. We’ll end this 1.5-hour session by hearing directly from Collaborative members about how they’ve dealt with implementing 2 Step Verification in their own organizations.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – January 2022

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – January 2022

January 18th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

January 2022: Google Monthly Updates

The January Updates Stream — where we're light on updates but heavy on special guests! Today's session discusses an important account storage timeline change, a nice improvement for getting devices to apply updates, and oh yeah, there's still some Meet and Classroom features on the horizon Google promised us!

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Collaborative — January 2022 Deep Dive: Google Updates: A Year in Review

Collaborative — January 2022 Deep Dive: Google Updates: A Year in Review

January 6th, 2022

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Updates: 2021 Year in Review

In this deep dive we review the important Google, Chrome and Amplified IT updates from 2021 and discuss the necessary actions and impact they have on our Google environment. This is an extended 1.5 hour live stream edition.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – December 2021

December 21st, 2021

For Collaborative Members

December 2021 Google Monthly Updates

The December Updates Stream — where we say goodbye to 2021 with Chrome v96 updates and issues, check in on how the new community is going and end with some big paid edition features.

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Collaborative — December 2021 Deep Dive: Chrome Management Best Practices

Collaborative — December 2021 Deep Dive: Chrome Management Best Practices

December 9th, 2021 (Changed from Dec 2nd)

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Chrome Management Best Practices

Chrome Management in the admin console has changed quite a bit over the years and so has schools’ environments and needs. In this session, we’ll cover the basics of Chromebook deployment, Chrome User & Browser settings and review tools to help manage devices. There will be time at the end for Q & A.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream — Classroom Insights with BigQuery

Collaborative Bonus Stream — Classroom Insights with BigQuery

November 30th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Bonus Stream: Classroom Insights with BigQuery

Recently Google began providing audit logs for Classroom. For Workspace Plus and Standard customers, the logs are accessible to exports to BigQuery. Join the Onboarding & Support team as they walk through getting started with BigQuery and how to leverage Classroom logs and connect it to Data Studio.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – November 2021

November 16th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

November 2021 Google Monthly Updates

***This month is 1.5 hours. The first hour will be our normal Updates stream. In the last 30 minutes, we will be reviewing the brand new Collaborative platform and the next steps to move over!***

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Collaborative — November 2021 Deep Dive: Google Workspace Plus Best Practices

Collaborative — November 2021 Deep Dive: Google Workspace Plus Best Practices

November 4th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Google Workspace Plus Best Practices

You have Workspace Plus! But what do you do with it? Is Workspace Plus just more settings you have to configure for your end users? In this session, we'll review the Plus tools that truly help YOU as the admin. We'll also provide tips and tricks to keep you efficient and avoid missteps. Join us to learn the best practice superpowers of the Plus Admin.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – October 2021

October 19th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

October 2021 Google Monthly Updates

The October Updates stream — The stream where Google doubles down on students not being able to unenroll themselves in Classroom, Google Classroom Meets finally get what we've been promised and a new "read-only" Device role is available. Plus you're going to want to check out these Chrome version cycle reminders!

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Collaborative — October 2021 Deep Dive: Admin Console Best Practices

Collaborative — October 2021 Deep Dive: Admin Console Best Practices

October 7th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Admin Console Best Practices

“Do I have my admin console set up right?” If you’ve never asked yourself that, are you really a Google for Education admin? Most of us are only in the admin console when there’s a problem and then we put a band-aid fix on it, call it good and move onto our next task. In this session we will cover the most common missteps we see in domains and provide a high level review of the key areas to review.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – September 2021

September 21st, 2021

For Collaborative Members

September 2021 Updates: Classroom Audit, End Meeting for all and more

The stream where we end all meetings in our domain, catch kids unenrolling themselves from Classroom and oh yeah, what in the world is up with YouTube after those Sept 1st (age-based setting) changes? We uncover what we think Google's big "game changer" was and get schools thinking about how they will now set up the YouTube environment.

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Collaborative — September 2021 Deep Dive: Summer Update Jams

Collaborative — September 2021 Deep Dive: Summer Update Jams

September 2nd, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Summer Update Jams

In this session, we rewind the Google updates from Summer and review the most important changes. On vacation? Have other projects? Staff turnover? Grab a chair, settle in, and let’s all review and reflect as a group so we can start off the school year feeling confident about Google & Chrome updates.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream: Age-Based Setting Impact

Collaborative Bonus Stream: Age-Based Setting Impact

August 26th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Bonus Stream: Age-Based Setting Impact

This is an additional monthly live stream for Collaborative members. We will be providing another opportunity to discuss the new Age-Based Setting and the impact it will bring on September 1st. All Google Admins need to configure this setting to avoid service disruption on September 1st. An overview of the setting, configuration, impact, and Q & A will be discussed in this 30-minute stream.

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – August 2021

August 17th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

August 2021 Updates: SSO Profiles, Chrome v92 & Co-Hosts

The stream where Andrea orders pizza, we review our Collaborative benefits, get a reminder about important upcoming deadlines and we see the Chrome web store giving us an app approval feature - but is it too late to use? All that and more on this month's Google Updates stream!

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Collaborative — August 2021 Deep Dive: Vault

Collaborative — August 2021 Deep Dive: Vault

August 5th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Diving into Vault

This month we focus on Google Vault. Sure, Vault isn't new but when is the last time you really dove into it? We've got a new interface, more retention policy options, and more services are covered. Are you following best practices? Do you even know your retention policy? Should we look into actually setting a retention policy with the account storage changes coming next summer? Let's discuss this all on the August Deep Dive!

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Collaborative Stream – Explore Classroom syncing options with Clever and Little SIS Premium

Collaborative Stream – Explore Classroom syncing options with Clever and Little SIS Premium

August 4th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

NAGTC: Explore Classroom syncing options with Clever and Little SIS Premium

Join our Onboarding team to learn more about Google’s Clever sync for Workspace Plus, how it works and how it compares to Little SIS Premium’s Classroom sync and admin features.

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NAGTC – Security update for Google Drive & Age-based setting

NAGTC – Security update for Google Drive & Age-based setting

July 26th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Additional Stream: Security update for Google Drive & Age-based setting

We are adding an additional live stream on July 26th (2pm EST) to support members with the Google Drive Security Update change and the Age-based setting.

Security Update 2:15 - 18:50
Q & A 18:50 - 29:00
Age-based setting 29:00 - 37:40
Q & A 37:40 - 53:42

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Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2021

Collaborative Google Updates Stream – July 2021

July 20th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

July 2021 Updates: Link sharing, Age-based setting, the Anywhere School Recap

The stream where we finally get some answers and insight into the Link Sharing Security Update. And, did you miss the Anywhere School Event? No worries, we recap those updates and timelines too. And did you catch that security keynote during that event? Or maybe you remember getting an email from Google about the new Age-based Setting? This is super important and admins must take an action to ensure staff don't come at you with pitchforks after Sept 1st. And Clippy makes an appearance? Watch it all on our July Google Updates stream!

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Collaborative — July 2021 Deep Dive: The Life cycle of a Perfect Google Classroom Experience

Collaborative — July 2021 Deep Dive: The Life cycle of a Perfect Google Classroom Experience

June 30th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Collaborative Deep Dive: Amplified IT’s Life Cycle of a Perfect Google Classroom Experience

If you could “have it your way” and create the perfect Google Classroom experience for your organization, what would it look like? Auto-provisioning? Key insights available currently not available Google Admin console? From creating a seamless Google Classroom experience for your teachers to clean up after the school year ends- come see start to finish how you can make the 21-22 school year the best yet. We will take a look at Classroom updates for Google Workspace, the roadmap, and get a demo of Little SIS Premium, launching this summer.

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Collaborative Bonus Stream — Diving into Chrome devices and trends

Collaborative Bonus Stream — Diving into Chrome devices and trends

June 17th, 2021

For Collaborative Members

Additional Stream: Diving into Chrome devices and trends

In this session, CDW will dive into K12 device trends, latest hardware road map and supply outlooks, along with a round table discussion with the group.

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