These resources from Google are a good place to start:
Guide to Going Google - A site with tips and resources for Google Apps for Education on technical implementation, professional development and training plans, promotion, and more.
Google Apps Learning Center - A site for all Google Apps editions for your first days, tips and tricks, setting up mobile devices, and more.
What's New in Google Apps - Built just for Google Apps administrators, this site is your "one place to go" for the latest news on upcoming products, features, and learning resources.
Gmail and Google Calendar for Administrative Assistants - If your organization has administrators or coordinators who manage other people's calendars or email, here's how to get started setting up delegation for t manager's calendar or inbox, creating group meetings or events for large audiences, and more.
Share best practices, learn new tools, and build community with fellow administrative or executive assistants at other organizations using Google Apps!
Simple end-user guides for transitioning to the New Look for Google Apps. Includes Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sites, and FAQs!
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Teaching with Online Collaboration Tools: University of Michigan Faculty Examples View
University of Michigan Center for Research on Learning and Teaching (CRLT). Teaching in the Cloud: Using Google Apps & Other Online Collaboration Tools for Student Engagement. These videos and other resources on this topic are now available on CRLT's website.
John Sowash, a Google Certified Teacher, is a teacher and the director of online learning for Global Christian School Online, a division of Southfield Christian school located near Detroit, Michigan.
This blog post captures top, free training tools for Google Apps Education customers and users, such as iTunes podcasts and videos on using various Apps.
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University of Minnesota's Google Apps Acceptable Use Policy View
Another example of an EDU's acceptable use guidelines for Google Apps and end-users.
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University of York Collaborative Tools Project View
The Collaborative Tools Project (CTP) was created to help improve collaboration at the University of York, within departments, between departments and with collaborators at other universities by providing tools such as wikis, blogs, file-sharing and forums to all. This project will not be targeted at students or look to replace existing services such as Calendar, Email, CMS or the VLE, but will integrate with them.
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Google Apps Documentation
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We are pleased to announce a new open source project, Course Builder.
We packaged up the technology we used to build the Power Searching with Google course and have made it available for others to experiment with online learning
Evaluating Network and Bandwidth Optimization for Google Apps. This document describes how to perform measurements to better understand how much network load will be caused by using a software as a service product from within your own network.
This guide serves as a resource for domain administrators in charge of moving their student and/or faculty/staff populations to Google Apps for Education. Inside you’ll find a step-by-step outline for completing the technical aspects of your deployment, including relevant help center articles and videos. Google Apps deployments typically take between 1 day and 6 weeks. This material is targeted towards IT administrators (or others) looking to learn more about the technical aspects of a Google Apps deployment.
Google Apps provides powerful communication, collaboration, and productivity tools right from the browser. But even if your business uses Google Apps, much of your enterprise's data is probably still stored behind a firewall - making it inaccessible to your users when they're not connected to the corporate network.
The Secure Data Connector (SDC) helps you build custom applications so that your Google Apps users can request access to this data.
Presentation slides from our May 23 Fireside Chat on Apps Script. Provides an overview of what Apps Script, use cases, code examples, and resources to get started.
ABCs of Marketing Google Apps at Your Organization View
From the Google Apps EDU team.
Dec 15, 2011, 11:38 AM
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CIO Fireside Chat: Macalester College and the Liberal Arts Perspective View
Google Presentation from Jerry Sanders, Barron Koralesky, and Adam Nave
Jan 25, 2012, 11:02 AM
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CIO Fireside Chat with Wake Forest University View
Google Presentation from Rick Matthews, CIO at Wake Forest University sharing their Google Apps experience.
Dec 12, 2011, 1:40 PM
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Colby College Google Apps SIG-NERCOMP Presentation View
We will discuss 2-step authentication in Google Apps for Education and UNIX hosts and how it can improve secure access as well as its limitations. We will also examine the potential for Federated Login using Google's OpenID as a secure identity broker.
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Colby College Google Apps SIG-NERCOMP Presentation: Secure Access View
We will discuss 2-step authentication in Google Apps for Education and UNIX hosts and how it can improve secure access as well as its limitations. We will also examine the potential for Federated Login using Google's OpenID as a secure identity broker.
New York University's Migration to Google Apps for Education
Speaker: Aleks Gylys, Residential Computing Coordinator and NYU Google Apps Service Lead, New York University
Dec 12, 2011, 1:40 PM
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Promoting Google Apps for Collaborative Learning Through a Course Management System - Northwestern View
Northwestern University's Presentation on Google Apps + Blackboard (Bboogle) Integration
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SUNY IT's Google Apps SIG-NERCOMP Presentation View
Explore the Possibilities of Google Sites, Google App Engine, and Google Voice
Speaker: Wesley Dean, Principal, KDA Web Technologies, Inc.
Dec 12, 2011, 1:40 PM
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Teacher's College Google Apps SIG-NERCOMP Presentation View
Teachers College Columbia University Transitions to Google Apps
Speaker: Daniel Aracena, Director LAN & Help Desk Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University
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Videos
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Best Practices for Administrative Assistants Hangout on Air View
Recording of Hangout on Air with Admin Gurus on best practices for Google Apps.
First webinar of the four part Google Apps for Education 101 Webinar series. Would you like to pitch Google Apps at your school or are you interested in learning more about the product? Watch this webinar to learn more about Google Apps - a powerful product suite that's available at no cost to your school. We'll discuss the services available in Google Apps and how you can use it at your institution.
Dec 16, 2011, 2:22 PM
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Google Apps EDU Fireside Chat: Macalester College View
Fireside Chat recording with Jerry Sanders, CIO of Macalester College, discussing Google Apps from the Liberal Arts college perspective.
Mar 13, 2012, 5:54 PM
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Google Apps EDU Fireside Chat: Wake Forest University View
Fireside Chat recording with Rick Matthews, CIO of Wake Forest University, discussing how Google Apps has enhanced the culture of collaboration, in light of deploying their faculty and staff.
One of the many benefits of the Google Apps platform is our robust set of APIs that help administrators provision, manage, and integrate our products more efficiently. This is the recording from our Fireside Chat with Stafford Marquardt - one of our Enterprise Support API Specialists - on an overview of Google Apps APIs, including some code examples, and Q&A.
Once you've decided to deploy Google Apps at your school, it's important to communicate the upcoming changes to the your community. During this session, we'll take a look at marketing strategies and discuss best practices regarding communications with your institution. We'll also take a look at a sample project plan and talk about the importance of creating your own roll out plan.
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Google Apps Promotional Video - DePauw University View
See inside one of Google's data centers in this guided tour. See what powers our products, and then explore on your own in Street View: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/streetview
Hangout on Air with Google Apps Marketplace Partner, CloudLock. Tsahy Shapsa provides an overview and demo of CloudLock with Google Apps, and also highlights their Policy Compliance Scan feature to help administrators monitor sensitive data. Check out CloudLock in the Google Apps Marketplace for more: http://bit.ly/gs2eIK
This video is a recording of a Hangout on Air with 2 Google Student Ambassadors from Boise State University and New York University sharing how they use Google Apps from a students' perspective.
Integrating Google Apps with Salesforce Using Apps Script View
A very special Google Developers Live episode, in which Arun Nagarajan talks about using Google Apps Script with Salesforce to show how easily developers can integrate Salesforce with Google Sheets, Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Apps products.
Download the full source code of these demo scripts here: https://github.com/entaq/GoogleAppsScript
Hangout on Air discussing best practices and resources for after you've Gone Google, or deployed Google Apps for your organization. Intended audience is domain administrators for colleges and universities, but most content will be applicable to other organizations.
Are you interested in deploying Google Apps at your higher education institution? Not sure where to start? During this session, we discuss the key components of a Google Apps deployment and some things to consider even before you sign up for a Google Apps account.
Dec 16, 2011, 2:22 PM
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University of Illinois Chicago Google Apps Best Practices Discussion View
Join 70+ folks from various colleges and universities to talk about how we are using Google Apps, best practices for campus-wide deployment for students and/or faculty/staff, GAE issues, enhancements, etc. Most of the meeting time will be spent on questions and comments brought up by the folks in attendance.
What Can the Google Apps Control Panel do for me? View
Once you've decided to deploy Google Apps at your school, it's important to communicate the upcoming changes to the your community. During this session, we'll take a look at the marketing strategies and discuss best practices regarding communications with your institution. We'll also take a look at a sample project plan and talk about the importance of creating your own roll out plan.
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