Google Apps for Education

Brevard Public Schools uses Google Apps for Education (GAFE). Through this program, a variety of Google cloud-based technology options are available to all staff, teachers, and students in K-12.  

These resources provide tools for students and teachers to create and share assignments, with a variety of tools that enable students to be successful.  

Students can access their BPS Google Drive (Google Learn and Google Share) accounts via the BPS Launchpad. 

Google Apps and Extensions are tools that can be added to the Chrome internet browser. They work in combination with Google Drive and Google Docs.  There are a number of apps and extensions that are helpful to students with dyslexia, including text to speech, dictation, and word prediction.  

Once installed, Google Apps can be accessed in a variety of ways including the following: 

• Click on the Apps icon in the Bookmarks bar of the browser

• Enter chrome://apps in to the URL of the Chrome browser

Once installed, Google Extensions can be found in the upper right corner of the URL bar.