Google and schools, working together to unlock information and promote learning

Google was founded with one vision -- to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. And organizing the wealth of knowledge that lives inside academic institutions is critical to this mission. For the academic environment, where the flow of information is important to both education and research, Google Apps Education Edition provides anywhere-anytime solutions that improve communication and collaboration among all members of the campus community. When you go with Google, you're connected to an innovation leader that's truly committed to what lies at the heart of education.

With Gmail, we revolutionized webmail. Now we're building on that success with Google Apps, a universally available access point for customized communication and collaboration services. Students, faculty and staff can search all of their archived mail, collaborate over IM with their contacts, and add classes and meetings to their calendars right from the Gmail interface. And we've only just begun. Over time, we'll be integrating additional relevant Google products into Google Apps Education Edition, so your school can expect to stay on the cutting edge of online communication and collaboration.

Students and alumni

Stay in touch anywhere, anytime
Students are mobile -- classroom, lab, dorm, cafeteria, library and even home for the summer. Alumni disperse after graduation, but they still need powerful communication tools and your relationships with them don't need to end once they leave campus. With Google Apps, they have access to their email, contacts, calendar and instant messaging anywhere, anytime. By offering a custom Start Page, your school can brand a Google.com search page with news and information, helping students, alumni, faculty and staff stay connected.

They've already chosen Google
The services in Google Apps have been tested by millions of users over a period of years, and have been refined based on volumes of feedback. In fact, at many campuses over 20% of the student body already forwards their student email to Gmail. With students searching the web from your Start Page, Google can help you extend your brand and school news all the way to our search page.

It's all about choice
While Google is known for creating easy-to-use interfaces, we also like to provide options to our users. Gmail features like POP access and email forwarding let students choose from a number of programs to read and manage their email. And since Google Calendar is based on open standards, you can export your schedule in the open iCal format and share events with people outside of your campus community who don't use Google Calendar.

Learn more about all the other services and tools that can help your school help your campus community work together more effectively.

School administrators

Google Apps Education Edition is really, truly free
You don't have to buy anything to use Google Apps Education Edition -- no hardware, no software, no consulting.

We maintain a strict privacy policy
A strong privacy policy has always been critical to Google's success. We go to great lengths to protect user information, and you can be assured that Google Apps Education Edition will always treat your users' personal information with the utmost care and security. Learn more about our commitment to privacy and security.

IT managers

Requires less of your time
Because Google Apps is operated by Google engineers at our datacenters, the system requires very little investment from your IT department. Rather than spending time patching the email server, you can focus your resources, energy and time on driving higher-impact projects that will uniquely benefit your campus experience.

Leverages existing investments
Our easy-to-use administration console and Education Edition APIs enable integration with your existing systems, such as your user directory system system or your single sign-on infrastructure, keeping user administration simple and costs low.

Open standards
Our services work across multiple platforms -- PCs, Macs, even Linux computers! -- and we give each user the flexibility to use the internet browsers that they prefer.

Get started in one day
With Google Apps Education Edition there's no need to do any server planning, load balancing or backup routines. You could truly begin providing email the same day that you sign up. Just bring your own domain and get started.

Hundreds of schools have already enriched their campus communities with these services
Schools revolve around communication and collaboration, and these new services from Google are changing what's possible within educational communities. You can read more about how Google Apps has already helped many schools around the world.

Arizona State University Public university in Phoenix, Arizona 65,000 students		Google Apps Education Edition is helping Arizona State University become a highly flexible university that can provide extraordinary technology experiences for its students. Google's integration of webmail, instant messaging and calendaring is second to none. - Kari Barlow, Assistant Vice President, University Technology Office, Arizona State University