Technology Department Info

IT Recommendations

• Ensure your District has already created a Google for Education domain and has Organizational Units created to organize schools, teachers, students, and possibly devices. An effective organizational structure will make it easy to apply access permissions and restrictions to entire units. See suggested OU structure: Recommendations for OU Structure.

  • Teachers/Staff Google Accounts

  • Student Google Accounts. Note: although Google accounts resemble email addresses, districts can restrict student access to Google. If operating remotely, ALL will need email, restrict to internal district email for younger students.)

  • Enable Guardian Summaries

• Consider 'pushing out' extensions to students rather than whitelisting in the event of virtual instruction. Recommended extensions.

• If your District does NOT have a Google for Education domain, click here for guidelines for creating one. Contact the Digital Age Learning staff at ESC20 for additional assistance.

• Have in place a mechanism for automatically syncing your Google accounts for staff and students to your internal Microsoft® Active Directory® or LDAP Servers: Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS, free of charge). Optional tool but highly recommended.

• G Suite Password Sync (GSPS, free of charge) Keeps changes to user Microsoft® Active Directory® synced with Google. Optional tool but highly recommended.

• Google School Directory Sync (SDS, free of charge) Synchronize school and classroom information automatically. Not required, optional tool. Is compatible with Skyward.