Collaboration

Empower your campus with online website and document creation tools that offer real-time sharing and editing as well as worry-free compatibility. Google Apps Education Edition is free for academic institutions and includes a variety of tools to facilitate collaboration on campus.

Gmail Google Docs - Word processing, spreadsheets, forms, presentations, mobile access

Calendar Google Sites - Team website creation with videos, images, gadgets, and documents integration

Talk New! Labs - Moderated questions, short link, tools for software code review


Talk Google Video - Securely share videos with your school - anyone can add comments, tags and ratings - with 10GB included free with every domain


Across the board compatibility

Google Apps works no matter which operating systems or client software your students or faculty have.

  1. Easily import or export traditional file formats into Google Apps
    Import a document
    Export a document
  2. View your documents on the go with your web-enabled mobile device
  3. Publish files to the web for everywhere access
"Collaborative projects really make for an excellent education experience not only because students bounce ideas off each other and improve each other's writing skils, but also because the process itself teaches them how to work well with others - a valuable skill for everyone."

– Richard Ellwood, Technology Coordinator and Digital Arts Teacher, Columbia Secondary School



Sharing made simple

With documents and sites hosted in the cloud, everyone can edit and view the same document.

  1. Reduce email attachments by sharing documents on the web in real time without the hassle of version tracking
    Share a document
  2. Set privacy levels to restrict who can edit or view documents
  3. Build internal or external web sites collaboratively, unifying documents from Google Apps
  4. New! Easily embed your Google documents anywhere on the web with Google Web Elements.
"The collaborative nature of Google Apps for Education is a perfect fit for our institution allowing students to come together remotely to work on joint projects. The new system has been embraced by our students and we’ve achieved cost savings associated with labour and operational efficiencies – and we expect the collaborative aspects of Google Apps to be a major productivity benefit going forward."

– John Murphy, IT Director, Trinity College Dublin



Continuous Innovation

Google Apps rolls out new features throughout the year, so there's no need to wait for the next upgrade.

  1. Try gathering data through Forms, which automatically populates into a Google Spreadsheet
  2. Explore innovative new features and ideas with Google Labs, including:
    • Google Moderator makes it easy to gather and prioritize questions or opinions on any topic from a group of people
    • Google Short Links allows users to easily create descriptive shortcuts to web URLs
  3. Create customized templates for your campus with Google Docs
"The response from the university community has been extremely positive because we are now partnering with cutting-edge technologists who understand that we're trying to provide the latest, most innovative technologies available today."

– Roy B. Roberti, Director of Information Technology Planning, Hofstra University