Through Amplified IT, school districts across North America are joining a collaborative partnership which provides a platform to learn and share the latest updates, technical approaches, challenges and lessons learned surrounding Google for Education and Chrome devices.
The Google for Education Technical Collaborative reflects our common goal of implementing technology in schools in the most responsible and impactful ways. Collaborating together elevates our abilities and leverages our collective weight. Together we can facilitate more value for our schools and most importantly our students and teachers. Amplified IT is eager to facilitate discussions and lead training to drive improvements while the focus of the Collaborative is determined by its members.
In select states and provinces the Amplified IT team will lead in person meetups with collaborative members and the Google EDU Team. These are full day meetups where you can immerse your team in focused discussions. We’ll cover deep dive trainings on best practices within the G Suite admin console, and work within the group to discover common challenges or share innovative solutions.
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.
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”.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.