Over 25 million students are using Google Apps for Education, with many universities adopting it to enhance collaboration and reduce costs. Teachers face challenges like managing communication, sharing secured curriculum, and creating a streamlined dashboard for students. A platform called Edbrix aims to integrate these features, providing a single sign-on for teachers and students to access resources, communicate, and manage assignments more effectively.

2. Introduction
• Over 25 million (as of August 2013) students are using Google Apps for Education. This
number has doubled in 2 years.
• 72 of the top 100 universities are using Google Apps for Education
• Oregon was the first state to offer GAFE to all K-12 students. More are jumping on board
including Wisconsin, Colorado and Iowa.
• Reason for schools switching to Google is to reduce infrastructure cost and improve
collaboration and communication .

3. Challenges
All though Teachers are going Google still they have many challenges
• Can I access all my google services like mail drive ,my channel etc. on one single page?
• Is there any way I can have wall communication like edmodo or facebook so that I can
effectively communicate with entire class instead sending messages individually?
• How do I manage just my classroom students so that I can effectively communicate and
collaborate with them and my students can also see my curriculum ,live lectures and
notes?
• How do I create the curriculum which is secured and can be sharable among my
students? (Right now most of teachers upload the curriculum on their google website
which is open to the public.)
• How do I create assignments, practice questions and grade them? It is not easy to design
in Google (Currently many teachers use edmodo , quizlet and schoology.)

4. Continue
• Can I have secure and well managed google hangout feature for my student to get
online tutoring if he/she cannot stay after school?
• Can I create a secure and well managed google hangout for student study group
activities?
• Can I upload notes and online study materials for my students to download?
• Can I broadcast, or record, my lectures so my students can reference them at any time?
• Can a parent/guardian send me a message?
• Can I set up an online audio/video conference to communicate with the parents/
guardian?

5. Students Point of View
• Can students have one dashboard where they can see all new curriculum, study
materials, online tutorials, study groups and broadcast requests which does not require
them to login to multiple apps?
• Can students set separators for each teacher (color code) for identifying activities?
• Can students have online alert notifications or reminders?
• Can students submit and updates their homework and assignments at one place?
• Can students download notes and study material?
• Can a parent/ guardian monitor the student’s activity?
• Can students see my reports?
• Can students comments on their teachers wall?
• Can students have videos, documents, links and references in curriculum in a structured
way so that I can study properly?

6. Presenting
Integrated Platform for Google Users

7. Dashboard
To get access of all information

8. Wall

9. Set Curriculum

10. Schedule Tutoring Session

11. Create a Study Group

12. Create an Assignment

13. My Students

14. Calendar to Access Information

15. Student’s Calendar

16. Students Dashboard

17. Student’s Classroom

18. View Curriculum

19. Assignment

20. Edbrix
EdBrix provides a single sign on your google services where teacher can
effectively use Google platform with added features which are not available
with Google.
• Creating a secured curriculum.
• Setting up practice questions and assignments.
• Wall feature similar to Facebook.
• Parent/teacher communication with calendar invitation and google
hangout.
• Teacher can upload notes and study material.
• Teacher can broadcast and record lectures in a managed way.
• Teacher can communicate with parents/guardian and set up meetings.
• Student has single dashboard and can manage everything with a single
login. They do not have to access multiple sites.

21. Q & A
Q & A