What is UPOU Google Apps?
A
bridge between our organization and Google products. On one side, we
have communication and collaboration needs for our school. On the other
side, there are successful, innovative, online personal Google
products. Google Apps allows us to embrace the strengths of both sides.
Google quality, Google connectivity. Our school, our people. Powerful,
easy-to-use tools. Communicate via email, instant messaging, and voice
calls. Create and share calendar events, documents, and spreadsheets.
Access it all from one place - the Start Page.
Why are we using Google Apps?
To
bring together essential communication applications. To improve
productivity and communication. We can focus on student needs and
adding value to the experience while Google focuses on building
excellent products, maintaining the feature set, and innovating our
communication options for tomorrow.
Our goal is to offer you a
reliable, practical, secure, feature-rich web environment. We think
Google can help. We can focus on the core values of our school, such as
student relationships, and let Google leverage its extensive
operational experience with security and privacy. Our IT staff can
utilize an administrative set of APIs to build on top of Google Apps
rather than starting from ground zero.
How are the Google services linked together?
You
have one username for all services in the Google Apps package. Once you
log in to one service, you can easily access all others.
Rely
on the Start Page to provide access to the rest of the services. The
Start Page is publicly available, but won't display personalized
content until you log in. You can see a recent snapshot of new mail,
calendar events, and updated documents. Within your email
account, you can chat with your contacts. You'll receive invitations
for calendar events and to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets.
What do I need to know about documents and spreadsheets?
It's
a web-based word processing and spreadsheet application. It can help us
collaborate on projects from anywhere. Your documents are stored
online. You and anyone you invite to collaborate can access the
document from any internet-connected computer, and make changes
simultaneously. Multiple people can make changes at once, and
everyone's changes show in real-time.
You
can get started right away by creating a new document or by uploading a
file from your computer. Since the products are integrated, you can use
your email account Contacts list to invite people to view or edit your
documents.
Google Docs and Spreadsheets support revision history and individual edits are kept so you can see who made changes and revert back, if necessary. In addition, just like the rest of Google products, you can harness the power of
Google search to look for a document you haven't edited in months.
You also choose who sees your document. Other users can only
access your document or spreadsheet if you add them to the list of
collaborators or viewers, or if you decide to publish the document.
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