Marketplace and Dashboard

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The Dashboard

Training Module

Activity 1: Makeover your Dashboard

Log into your Dashboard

https://www.google.com/a/yourschool.org

Not signed up?

Log into your Service Settings
Add/remove other services
Ooooh pretty! Add your logo
Take 5 minutes and look at the Apps Marketplace. Locate a service that would benefit administrators in your school or district. Add thatservice to your services (or keep in mind for when you do!)
Customize the URL for your school
Explore Postini (Google Message Security) and configure it for your domains (like it? try the Full Guide later on).

Activity 2: Get Your Group On

Create a user
Change a password!
Create a suborganization
Create a group for use at your school or district. Examples include:

Administrators
Site tech leads
Professional Learning Communities

Give rights to your IT Team!

Activity 3: General Mischief

Explore the granular user settings for each of the Core Apps

Mail
Sites
Contacts
Groups
Calendar
Docs
Chat
Video

Explore popular non-Core products (that you can turn on and off, but not granular settings)

Blogger
Google Voice
Google + (faculty)
Picasa
Reader

Marketplace Tour

YouTube Video

It's Time to Go Shopping!

Come to the EDU Marketplace and find at least two apps

Creativity
Utility

Aviary

Creately Online diagramming and design

Gliffy Diagrams and flowcharts

Sliderocket Awesome preso's

Echo Sign Electronic signature for Google Apps

ManyMoon Social productivity, project management & task management

SurveyMonkey
Schedule Once
Box.net Cloud storage
GrockIt Testing

Administrator Tools
Collaboration and Research

User Renamer

Backupify

Haiku LMS

YoLink

Flowr Real-time collaboration

EasyBib Bibliography

BrainPOP

Favorsaurus