Thursday, July 22, 2010

Re: Google Apps for Education Start Page Question

I found it to be an all or non proposition, and also found the start page t=
o
not be very useful--if the administrator adds information to a start page,
it only shows up for new . I ended up creating a Google Sites landing page
that requires login and pointing our subdomain for our Google Apps to it.
The landing page just has links to the Google Apps services and some help
files.

By the way, we have found it very helpful to have a brand for our Google
Apps, which we call Aerie. It differentiates it from Gmail and other Google
services. If I tell a student I shared an Aerie doc with him, he knows he
can find it in his Aerie account, which is different from his personal Gmai=
l
account.
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Derrel Fincher
Director of Information and Communication Technology
Graded - The American School of S=E3o Paulo
http://www.graded.br | (55 11) 3747-4800 x160


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mark Nelson <mnelson@thayer.org> wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> A question for those of you who have gone down this path before me...
>
> If you enable the Start page is there any methodology to keep students fr=
om
> adding some of the inappropriate content (for a school) in Google's
> customization library or is this an all of none proposition?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
>
> Mark Nelson
> Director of Information Technology
> Thayer Academy
> 745 Washington Street
> Braintree, MA. 02184
>
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> fax: 781-380-0515
> email: mnelson@thayer.org http://www.thayer.org
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