This session is part 1 of 2 sessions held on day 1 of the summit to become an AppsEvents Certified Admin (ACA). In this session I help get you started exploring the hidden "behind the scenes" world of Google Apps for first time or early stage administrators. Please note it’s possible to just take one or both of the morning sessions and complete the assessment tasks in your own time if you would like to attend other sessions in the afternoon. Topics covered:
Intro: What is Google Apps Admin?
What does it mean to be an administrator
What can you do that other users can’t do
How to access, navigate and customize the admin control panel
The 3 ways to access the admin control panel
Getting around the menus (explain there is multiple ways to do the same task in Admin)
Customizing the admin home screen
Users
Create multiple users from a spreadsheet
Create a user manually
Suspend a user
Transfer docs from a user
Sub organizations
Create sub orgs for teachers and students
create sub sub orgs for year started (cohort)
Move student to a different sub org
Google Apps
Settings for email
Set up Labs
Enable offline gmail
Set up filtering on ‘Objectionable content’ keywords
Dan Taylor is from the UK and the Director of AppsEvents. After studying Systems Engineering at University he worked as a management consultant where he developed a passion for EdTech projects. He has been involved in the Google Education community since the launch of Google Apps... Read More →