Director of Technology at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
May 11, 2023
The first problem we were trying to solve was how to better manage our Chromebooks within the Google Admin console. We use a lot of Amplified's Google Workspace-related tools for functionality that we don't have in Google Workspace.
We use them for tech support for the Google Admin console, and as a touchpoint for the community they have, which allows us to connect with other school districts using Google across North America. We were trying to connect with other schools that were facing similar questions to those that we would have. We were looking for a central resource, a community where we could go that provided other users' experiences with Google.
We use them for troubleshooting purposes and we use their Little SIS product, which integrates with and builds and maintains our Google Classrooms and the students in and out of the classrooms.
The "foot in the door" that Amplified had was around the Google Administrator console audit for all of our settings in Google Workspace. They make sure to point out anything concerning, in every little nook and cranny, regarding how we are configured, and offer suggestions for changes or best practices. We did the audit for the same reason that anybody else does one. You don't know what you might be missing. You don't want to find out, after you've had a breach or something bad happened, that you didn't have things configured correctly. You want to be proactive with those issues. The result of the audit process is that it can give you quite a bit of work to accomplish, and that led to some of the more in-depth engagements that we've had with them. In responding to things from the audit, they made available some tools, like their Gopher suite, that helped our organizational units meet their recommendations to be effective. We've also engaged with them on significant projects such as email migrations from Exchange to Gmail and the directory sync from Active Directory to Google called GCDS. They helped us optimize and manage those with automation. We work regularly with them on a weekly, if not daily, basis. We're in touch with them on different things that we have cooking, whether it's troubleshooting and responding to customers or planning for the changes, project-based things, that we're going to put in place over the summer.
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TOA - Technology at Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District
Real User
May 2, 2023
We primarily use the solution to either problem-solve or streamline processes we are already doing. We've used several tools to assist in distributing Chromebooks and setting up accounts and groups. Much of our engagement with the solution has been for making our processes more efficient. Amplified for Education is deployed over 12 sites and is focused out of our district office.
We're a Google Workspace for Education school and use the solution for that suite of services. We use it to conduct security audits of our Google environment and for staff development through training courses. This helps us develop a knowledge base and keeps us up to date so that we can manage our Google environment as accurately and efficiently as possible. As a small to medium-sized school district, we don't have a large tech department full of staff, there are only two of us. Amplified allows us to maximize our workload. To do all the required jobs for our students, teachers, and devices, we need to work hard and know what we're doing. We found that taking the time to go through the training courses, security audits, or attend CDW Amplified learning sessions, helps us do our jobs better and more quickly than if we had to figure it out and manage it all ourselves. The product allows us to maximize our impact on our environment for our students. Amplified is deployed across our entire environment; we have five district buildings, including our district office. We use a Google environment, so the solution supports the whole district, though we have a single domain and a single console to manage Google. We have 1,700 students and around 250 staff members, so there are approximately 2,000 end users.
Amplified IT provides Google support for those tough questions that don't have a straightforward answer. They offer training and tools to enhance the Google Workspace environment for our district. We also purchase licenses through them. Amplified provides user training and third-party tools for the Google environment that Google doesn't provide.
I discovered Amplified when I was working at another school, and we were looking for a better way to manage our Google environment. When I learned about the solution, it was called Amplified IT. I came across them while looking at a reseller for either GoGuardian or SysCloud. We wanted to back up our system because a principal who had left the school took things with them. We needed a filtering solution to protect students and staff. While I'm aware of Little SIS, we never implemented it at my school because of multiple schools not having the right SIS to work with it.
We primarily use the solution for a Google audit and for the added tools provided to integrate with the Google admin console. The first problem we tried to solve was to find a way to integrate with the Google admin console, in particular using tools that allow us to rapidly onboard and offboard Chromebooks. We had a good experience doing that, so we started to use the platform to audit for blind spots we may have had in our security settings. We're a school district, so technically, the deployment is one district, but we have three different school buildings. We have under 1,500 end users.
We use Workspace for Education for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. It's also our LMS. Google Classroom is the biggest thing, and we use Google Meet for parent-teacher conferences when we can't have them in person. Google offered many of these services for free during the pandemic, and we wanted to continue to use them. Many of them are only available with a subscription, which also gives you the investigation tool and any other features in the admin console that the free version doesn't offer. The platform covers about 1,000 students and 150 school employees.
CDW Google Workspace for Education provides educational institutions with customizable tools, a Google Admin console for management, and extensive training support. It aids in managing Google Classroom and enhances the educational experience through resourceful integrations.CDW Google Workspace for Education offers a comprehensive suite of tools tailored to educational needs. With features like Google for Education Audit, Little SIS management, and the Gopher series, institutions can...
We primarily use CDW-G for supplying software and hardware needs for the district.
The first problem we were trying to solve was how to better manage our Chromebooks within the Google Admin console. We use a lot of Amplified's Google Workspace-related tools for functionality that we don't have in Google Workspace.
The main product we use is called Little SIS, but we've also used them for some technical advisement on the Google Admin console.
We use them for tech support for the Google Admin console, and as a touchpoint for the community they have, which allows us to connect with other school districts using Google across North America. We were trying to connect with other schools that were facing similar questions to those that we would have. We were looking for a central resource, a community where we could go that provided other users' experiences with Google.
We use them for troubleshooting purposes and we use their Little SIS product, which integrates with and builds and maintains our Google Classrooms and the students in and out of the classrooms.
The "foot in the door" that Amplified had was around the Google Administrator console audit for all of our settings in Google Workspace. They make sure to point out anything concerning, in every little nook and cranny, regarding how we are configured, and offer suggestions for changes or best practices. We did the audit for the same reason that anybody else does one. You don't know what you might be missing. You don't want to find out, after you've had a breach or something bad happened, that you didn't have things configured correctly. You want to be proactive with those issues. The result of the audit process is that it can give you quite a bit of work to accomplish, and that led to some of the more in-depth engagements that we've had with them. In responding to things from the audit, they made available some tools, like their Gopher suite, that helped our organizational units meet their recommendations to be effective. We've also engaged with them on significant projects such as email migrations from Exchange to Gmail and the directory sync from Active Directory to Google called GCDS. They helped us optimize and manage those with automation. We work regularly with them on a weekly, if not daily, basis. We're in touch with them on different things that we have cooking, whether it's troubleshooting and responding to customers or planning for the changes, project-based things, that we're going to put in place over the summer.
We primarily use the solution to either problem-solve or streamline processes we are already doing. We've used several tools to assist in distributing Chromebooks and setting up accounts and groups. Much of our engagement with the solution has been for making our processes more efficient. Amplified for Education is deployed over 12 sites and is focused out of our district office.
We're a Google Workspace for Education school and use the solution for that suite of services. We use it to conduct security audits of our Google environment and for staff development through training courses. This helps us develop a knowledge base and keeps us up to date so that we can manage our Google environment as accurately and efficiently as possible. As a small to medium-sized school district, we don't have a large tech department full of staff, there are only two of us. Amplified allows us to maximize our workload. To do all the required jobs for our students, teachers, and devices, we need to work hard and know what we're doing. We found that taking the time to go through the training courses, security audits, or attend CDW Amplified learning sessions, helps us do our jobs better and more quickly than if we had to figure it out and manage it all ourselves. The product allows us to maximize our impact on our environment for our students. Amplified is deployed across our entire environment; we have five district buildings, including our district office. We use a Google environment, so the solution supports the whole district, though we have a single domain and a single console to manage Google. We have 1,700 students and around 250 staff members, so there are approximately 2,000 end users.
We primarily use CDW Amplified to manage Google Workspace for Education, and we implemented the product to make management easier.
Amplified IT provides Google support for those tough questions that don't have a straightforward answer. They offer training and tools to enhance the Google Workspace environment for our district. We also purchase licenses through them. Amplified provides user training and third-party tools for the Google environment that Google doesn't provide.
I discovered Amplified when I was working at another school, and we were looking for a better way to manage our Google environment. When I learned about the solution, it was called Amplified IT. I came across them while looking at a reseller for either GoGuardian or SysCloud. We wanted to back up our system because a principal who had left the school took things with them. We needed a filtering solution to protect students and staff. While I'm aware of Little SIS, we never implemented it at my school because of multiple schools not having the right SIS to work with it.
We primarily use the solution for a Google audit and for the added tools provided to integrate with the Google admin console. The first problem we tried to solve was to find a way to integrate with the Google admin console, in particular using tools that allow us to rapidly onboard and offboard Chromebooks. We had a good experience doing that, so we started to use the platform to audit for blind spots we may have had in our security settings. We're a school district, so technically, the deployment is one district, but we have three different school buildings. We have under 1,500 end users.
We use Workspace for Education for Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar. It's also our LMS. Google Classroom is the biggest thing, and we use Google Meet for parent-teacher conferences when we can't have them in person. Google offered many of these services for free during the pandemic, and we wanted to continue to use them. Many of them are only available with a subscription, which also gives you the investigation tool and any other features in the admin console that the free version doesn't offer. The platform covers about 1,000 students and 150 school employees.