Beginners Guild to the New Google Apps Admin Console

Activity 1: Makeover your Dashboard

Log into your Dashboard

https://www.google.com/a/yourschool.org

Not signed up?

• • Log into your Service Settings

  • Add/remove other services

• Add your logo

  • Take 5 minutes and look at the Apps Marketplace. Locate a service that would benefit administrators in your school or district. Add a service to your services

  • Customize the URL for your school

Activity 2: Get Your Group On

• Create a user

  • Change a password!

  • Create a sub organization

• Create a group for use at your school or district. Examples include:

  • Administrators

  • Site tech leads

  • Professional Learning Communities

  • Give rights to your IT Team!

Activity 3: General Mischief

• • Explore the granular user settings for each of the Core Apps

    • Mail

    • Sites

    • Contacts

    • Groups

    • Calendar

    • Docs

    • Chat

  • Explore popular non-Core products (that you can turn on and off)

    • Blogger

    • Google + (faculty)