Saturday, August 18, 2012
We're In!
With school starting on Monday, we now have all of our Chromebooks ready to roll! To obtain our own domain (Thanks, LunarPages), begin a Google Apps account through that domain, customize our own GApps settings, get Google Enterprise support, transfer the technical contact for our order, create 350 email accounts, obtain "Google Apps for Education" status through our sfmemorial.com domain, redirect our domain's email MX records to point to Google, reprovision our Chromebooks to our GApps domain, add 350 new GApps user accounts, and enroll 60 Chromebooks was a ginormous undertaking. Phew! The Google team (Emma, Michael, Andrew, and Tom) worked so well with our state's domain administrator (Thanks, James!) to make things happen for us. We did do things the hard way (having to switch the domain to our own), but now we will have great access to manage these devices and our learners' experience with them.
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Wow, Owen...FANTASTIC!!! Thank you so very much for you dedication and hard work. You are forging trails for our district...and it sounds like you are learning lots. I'm sure it's small consolation, but the next group that gets chromebooks will have a roadmap on how to proceed thanks to you and Nikki.
ReplyDeleteWe would be definitely be willing to help others take a path with less detours than ours. It did make the moment that everything worked a little sweeter, though.
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