Apps for Education

Works with your school's IT system. Today and tomorrow.

Google Apps for Education gives you extensive administration controls, open APIs, and ready-made tools so you can integrate with legacy IT systems – and the next generation of learning management and student information services.

• APIs – Our APIs feature single sign-on, user provisioning and management, email migration, email routing controls and reporting.

• Administrator tools – Access your centralized control panel to manage users and customize services for your school.

• Apps Marketplace – A dedicated education category features installable apps that use single sign-on, universal navigation, and can even integrate with your domain's data.

• App Engine – Build and run your institutions’s internal web apps on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

• Data Liberation – Say goodbye to vendor "lock-in". We provide feeds, APIs, and client tools to help you to move data in (or out) of Apps.

• Solution providers – Need a hand? Authorized partners can help deploy, integrate, or extend Google Apps at schools large and small.

Open standards, easy deployments

Google Apps for Education is designed around open industry standards, with a bevy of features and well-documented APIs to make setup and provisioning easy.

• SAML-based SSO API gives your users the simplicity of single sign-on, while providing security and control you can trust.

• Integration with Active Directory/LDAP/Directory Information Services eases account management and provisioning using our APIs and directory sync tools, Google Apps Directory Sync.

• OpenID and OAuth support lets you provide secure Federated Login to your institution's users.

• Configurable mail routing options through Google Apps Email Routing or an existing Email Gateway.

• Migration tools for Lotus, Outlook, and Exchange help you quickly migrate email, calendar events, and contacts from your existing systems.

• Email Migration API and IMAP Migration features to help you migrate data from Cyrus, Dovecote, Courier and Groupwise servers.

Build (or buy) a fully-customized solution

Apps is designed with flexibility and extensibility in mind. Your school can build or purchase additional functionality to suit your needs -- while keeping deployment and maintenance simple. Because installable apps all run on Google's enterprise infrastructure, you get effortless scalability, without worrying about hardware, patches or backups.

Apps Marketplace

Deploy integrated applications – like the Haiku learning management system or social learning platform Grockit - with just a couple of clicks. Installable applications in the Apps Marketplace Education Category deliver integrations like single sign-on and universal navigation access, right out of the box.

App Engine

Need to go bespoke? With App Engine, you can build, deploy, and maintain custom web apps entirely on Google's scalable infrastructure. You'll get the reliability and security of Apps' hosted systesm, with smart centralized administration, so you can manage all the applications running on your school's domain.