Friday 7 November 2014

Google: Useful Tips to Administrate Google Apps for Education

1.  Google Apps Migration for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook
2.  Google Active Directory Sync
3.  Google School Directory Sync - import from CSV
4.  Deleted user - Google will permanently delete the users after 5 days ( use suspended rather than deleted )
5.  Can restore the Drive and Gmail data of an user within 26 days
6.  FIM - ForeFront Identity Manager - Middleware sync between the school information system to other application including AD
7.  SSO Easy - Single Sign On for Google Apps
8.  Should turn on Objectionable Content - filter bad words, student welfare and credit card info
9.  No way to upload student's photos to Google
10. For Google Classroom, if the teachers click on Student, only Google Admin can do the change in the console
11. Google will give unlimitted storage space after 2 weeks from 7 Nov 2014
12. CloudLock to scan the sensitive contents in Google Drive and disable the sharing for students
13. Need to let the management know if you enable the sharing outside the organization because the information is exposed
14. Document's name in Google Drive can be the same because the URL is unique
15. Recommended only staffs can create site in Google Site
16. Do not allow phone call for students in Google Hangout
17. Add a suffix to groups created by users so that you can avoid the student to create an unappropriate group in Google Groups
18. Google Takeout - Take out all the data from Google Apps
19. Turn off Youtube and Google+ for the students under the age of 13
20. Disable Google Place and Google Adworks - students do not need that
21. You can track the person who has done the configuration ( Google Admin ) in Google Reports
22. Set alerts in Google Reports so that you will be alerted if someone has done some changes
23. Set the Admin roles accordingly to restrict the personal who can access the Google Admin console
24. You can use Google Apps Manager - GAM ( command based, free version ) and Flashpanel ( GUI based, paid version ) to manage your Google Apps

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