Parent Technology Support Page
Google Apps for Education is a free suite of web-based tools available to all Buffalo Trail Public Schools students and staff for the purposes of communicating and collaborating. Tools such as Gmail, Drive, and Calendar can be utilized inside and outside of the classrom to support and maximize student learning.
With Google Apps for Education students and staff get:
unlimited online storage for docs, videos and images
real-time collaboration
no advertising
free sites with URLs custimised to btps.ca
All students and staff have BTPS Google Accounts created for them already, and all new students and staff will have these accounts automatically created for them.
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Parent Resources
Parents Guide to 21st Century Learning
Click here to: Install Google Chrome at Home
A Video Guide for installing at home and Creating Multiple users:
Please feel free to access Google's official tutorials by clicking
or
You can peruse our video tutoials on this site.
You can also find great tips and BTPS news on our Youtube Channel "BT Tube"
It is very important that if you are using Chrome at home on a Windows or Mac, you need to set up Multiple users, so you aren't linking data between parents and students.