A few years ago, a district’s warehouse in Louisiana was mostly destroyed by a hurricane right after they had purchased 25,000 laptops. This tragic event damaged a lot of the device fleet and delayed the beginning of the academic year. When everyone returned, classrooms were full of garbage cans placed to catch water leaking from the ceilings, computers were covered in plastic to keep them dry, and students walked soggy hallways with no electricity. The schools and their partners came together and pitched in to help, but the heavy lifting fell on the IT department.

Even without a serious obstacle like this one, summer is a hot and relatively long period of hard work. Your technical staff are ramping up to address digital hygiene, domain maintenance, device purchasing, software services, hardware repairs, and much more. Do you know who you’ll lean on to close out the academic year and get your school up and running again in 9 weeks? Remember that CDW Education is here to help you operate more quickly, efficiently, and safely. 

We wish you a successful season!

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AI is revolutionizing education and how to navigate this technology is pertinent to the future of instruction and learning, academic research and innovation. Dive into this “Teaching for Tomorrow” video to discover how AI can help educators promote connection and creativity in the classroom.

Q: How can I keep my students throughout the organization from finding and emailing Staff Google Groups?

A: Google has recently released the Workspace resource type visibility setting. This setting will allow an Admin to choose which workspace resource should be shown in the directory for specific Organizational Units. The student OU(s) could be chosen and the option to allow users to see Google Groups can be turned off. Once turned off the users in the specified OU(s) will not be able to find emails for any Google Groups.

Access Our Resources: Leverage Your EdTech

Unlike other access management solutions that compromise flexibility, Google Workspace for Education’s context-aware access enables technical staff to increase security while maintaining automated granular access to services in the domain based on defined criteria. Learn more. 

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