Following on from Part 1 which looked at registering and setting up the domain for Google Apps, this post will discuss how to configure your domain to get it up and running. Click on a link below to open a Google Document that can then be downloaded or printed as required. I would suggest going through them in the order they are listed.
**Edit 20th June 2013 There has been a change to the Google Apps Dashboard, the new help guides are indicated below. Current Google Apps Users may find that they have the old admin dashboard for a while yet. I will leave both guides available until further notice. **
Creating Organizations and Uploading Users (New Guide) – This includes how to create the CSV/Excel file to upload users in bulk.
Adding Users 1 at a time (New Guide)
Creating Groups (New Guide) – Useful if you want to email a whole class or all staff at once
Choosing which services to enable (New Guide) – Google Apps provides access to lots of services, you might not want them all enabled.
Settings (New Guide) – Choosing which settings are enabled/configured for the different Google Apps tools.
Google Apps Marketplace (New Guide) – Adding Apps from the Marketplace
Advanced Tools and Reports (New Guide) – Not really used by most people, but useful to see what is there.
Part 3 will follow soon, this will look at what to do now that you have Google Apps all setup and running.
Hi Ian, nice post. I have just moved our school to Google apps and have used your posts as a reference, so thanks. Do you use Outlook for teachers or have you kept the web based gmail? Do you manage to get all teachers in your school to use other apps than just the email? Or like me do you have a few technophobes!? I’m trying to build it into our ICT curriculum so they have no choice…
In Hampshire, we have Outlook Web Access provided by county for office and senior leaders. For everyone else, we have given them Google accounts.