Welcome to the KPS Goes Google page.
This page is a resource for Kentwood Public Schools staff as we transition from GroupWise to Google Apps for Education. As always please contact our Help Desk at (616) 530-9196 ext. 78721 with any questions or concerns. What’s Google Apps?
Google Apps is a suite of web-based E-Mail and collaboration applications that Google hosts on their own servers. Google provides these applications as a "service," rather than as software to download and install. To access these applications, you simply use a web browser on a computer that's connected to the Internet.
Why choose Google Apps? We looked for an email and calendar solution that could provide with us the following benefits:
Timeline
April 16 - Early Adoption Phase
April 30 - Single Building Wide Deployment
Beginning May 7 - Full Scale, District Wide Training
May 18 - Migration Completion Goal & GroupWise Server will still be accessible but will stop sending and receiving mail.
May/June - Email/Calendar Support
Summer - Optional Training Sessions (Gmail, Calendar, Groups, Docs, etc.)
Fall - Continued Professional Development
January 1, 2013 - KPS Groupwise server is permanently Powered off |