Chromebooks

[Jason Keelan]

Hey everyone. We're just about to buy our first set of Chromebooks and although we're getting great help in setting them up, I'm just wondering (as the GSuite admin) what settings would be best to look out for? Is having a unique school email for login for every pupil beneficial or what practice works best for people? Are there any places/websites/databases that outline Google Play apps which are useful for different activities? Anything else people would recommend early doors for getting us up and running? 

Thanks a million

Jason

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[Greg Ashe]

If you need students to do their own stuff (in Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc) and save this then you will need a Workspace account for each student.

If students are just using for browsing, watching YouTube then a generic shared account is fine

Primary or secondary?

There are a lot of settings that can be applied under the devices section of Worskpace Admin - I suggest you initially get whoever is setting them up to apply best practice.

Make sure you set up appropriate Org Units for your devices so that settings can be applied in a granular fashion.

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[Paul de Lacy]

Hi Jason,

Speaking from a primary perspective:

We have given each pupil from 3rd - 6th class their own @xschooldomain.ie workspace account.

They are structured yearofgraduation...@xschooldomain.ie e.g. 22johnmurphy@

Each class group has their own Organisational Unit.  We have two main OUs Staff and Students and sub OUs for each class.

Gmail is turned off for all members of the Student OUs

As a result, no matter what chromebook the pupil accesses their work previous work is available to them and teachers can also use Google Classroom to assign work, allowing it to be returned to the teacher for correction.

Camara are a good source of (paid) support & training for Irish schools using Google Workspace

Our pupils have expressed a preference to use Chromebooks over iPads in situations that require typing etc.

All the best

Paul

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[jim....@adamstowncc.ie]

If your school is a google school I would advise getting Enterprise licences which will allow you to control and protect the Chromebooks as well as giving you the ability to push out specific apps and extensions to all users. There is a cost but it is not massively expensive. It will also allow you to lock the devices and if one goes missing to locate it through google maps (Similar to find my device with phones)

If you go down the route of having students log in with their own details then there is also an option to remove all data relating to that user when they log off to make it easier to manage them as well.

If you do go down this route I am happy to talk you through what we did in my school. 

Regards

Jim Finn

Adamstown Community College