Google Workspace Education Plus licenses

[m...@lphs.school.nz]

Hello,

We have 710 student licenses for Workspace for Education Plus, but our school roll is 800 (could be more next year).

Who do I contact regarding additional licenses? (We do our IT in-house, we don't have a relationship at the moment with a third-party IT support.) 

Thanks.

[Simon Wright]

nzsc...@cyclone.co.nz

Regards,

Simon Wright

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[Jono Hayes]

Contact me 😂

Happy to order these for you. 

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[m...@lphs.school.nz]

Would there be a charge for these licenses?

[Yvette Ireton]

No charge for state schools - here's all the info: https://www.education.govt.nz/education-professionals/schools-year-0-13/digital-technology/google-software-licences-schools

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Yvette

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[Steve Smith - Google for Education NZ]

Hi,

You can order a top up for your students from whoever you ordered the original licences from.

If you need info about this I can help so feel free to contact me off forum.

We do our licencing through your IT partner which is usually who you brought chromebooks from (or other hardware) 

These licences are fully funded by the MoE software contract.

If you don't have and IT services partner we often suggest one of our retail partners.

Ngā mihi

Steve

[d.keen...@gc.ac.nz]

Thinking of which, does anyone know how the MoE is handling the license changes in February 2026?

Had this email a while back:

Screenshots to prevent copy+paste formatting problems.  See the minimum purchase requirements bit specifically.

So, this makes for interesting reading from the perspective of machine and service accounts.

I've spent a fair while during the year converting a lot of those to email-only, but it can be more difficult for GCP and other system account types, which need to be full users for functionality.

Regards,

David Keenleyside, BSc CS & IS, CTech

ITP Associate

EFF Member

ICT Technician

Glenfield College

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[Steve Smith]

Hi David,

There is no impact to you or the the MoE agreement of this global change.

Schools in the MoE agreement dont need to do anything about this.

Best regards

Steve

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