Google Apps Education Edition

Google apps offers a next generations E-mail and collaboration platform for educational institutions. All for no anual cost whatsoever. 

This means that schools can get immediate access, at a low cost, to a professional collaboration and messaging platform.

Google Apps gets rid of all the E-Mail related maintenance and infraestructure costs, Specially for universities, in addition to getting a full and more reliable platform. Some of the Education Edition features are the following:

It does not matter if there are 10 or 100,000 accounts, Google offers up to 7 GB of E-Mail storage for each student, faculty or staff with all the google mail benefits like anti-spam and anti-virus, fast message search, etc.

The advanced calendar features allow you to setup reminders through different type of media, you may also share your calendar with other pleople. Makes asking for the meeting/projection room and/or organize events an easy task

Real-time document collaboration is one feature that promotes teamwork and the availability for students to access spreadsheets, text documents and presentations from any place, sharing documents with several users  and document revisions included, institutional departments, faculty, students and staff may publish public and private web pages with schedules, study content or any other content that facilitates collaboration.

Instant communication between faculty, staff and student through voice, text and video using Google Talk. All of this with no long distance or other infraestructure needs besides internet connection.

Online video repository for institutional conferences, events or courses storage and available for all it's members.

 

Single Sign On Integration based on SAML. Allows users in your current directory (Active Directory, Open LDAP, Data Base, etc...) to authenticate

 

Programming Interfaces. These features allow programmatic access making possible the automation of tasks such as: User creation, edition, deletion and synchronization, Search Documents, Mail migration, Calendar management, etc.

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