Using Google Apps for Education
• Create a learning community (free of charge)
• Create, share and collaborate documents, spreadsheets and presentations.
• Create web pages and publish documents.
• Communicate with your community by email, IM and voice calling.
• Organize and publish events using Google Calendar
• If you don’t own a web domain, register and set one up through Google.
(£4.78 per year) This can make setting up Google Apps somewhat more
straightforward.

The start page
Users need to be able to access a link to the Google Apps start
page. I created a link from an existing website.

The start page
One example of a start page. The colours, logos and various
modules are all customizable.

The log-in.
User names and passwords can be created in Excel and
imported to save time.

The log-in.
This is the link to Google Docs.

Google Docs
This is how Google Docs looks on logging in.

Using Google Docs
Create a new document, spreadsheet, presentation or folder.

Using Google Docs
The word processing application is simple and fast to use.

Collaborating with Google Docs
To share the document is easy…

Collaborating with Google Docs
Select the community members to share the document with.

Collaborating with Google Docs
People can be invited as collaborators (with editing rights) or as
viewers.

Collaborating with Google Docs
If email has been activated, an invitation to view the document
can be sent.

Collaborating with Google Docs
It is easy to track with whom the document is being currently
shared.

Collaborating with Google Docs
This is the view of another member of the community who can
see the document being shared.

Collaborating with Google Docs
The document can be edited simultaneously with other users.

Collaborating with Google Docs
The ‘Revision’s tab keeps track on who has edited the document.

Collaborating with Google Docs
The document has been thoroughly revised after collaboration.

Using Google Docs
Documents and other files can be organized into folders. Files
can be exported in a number of common formats including .pdf.

Using Google Docs
Files can be uploaded and shared with the community.

Using Google Apps for Education
• Google Apps is fairly simple to set up.
• There is a huge potential for collaborative work and peer assessment.
• The community is more private than a wiki.
• It is free of charge.
• Help and advice at the Google Group: http://
groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators
• More ideas from Doug Belshaw