| Plus and K12 education | rasqual | 10/27/11 12:47 PM | Argh. We see that Plus is not going to be available to us because our school kids are under 18. What if we only use Apps for admins and staff? This deployment restriction is not helpful. |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Daeng Bo | 10/28/11 1:58 AM | There should definitely be a configuration option in the organization administration section which turns on over-18 services. That's why we have organizations, right? Honestly, Google+ isn't important to us at all. Native profile support without havi |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | dstucke | 10/28/11 2:52 AM | And why can't we use this with our young learners? What is the rationale behind the 18+ limit? Do you not think pupils will find a way around it any way? Just look at Facebook use in the under 13s. Any feedback from Google as to when this restrictio |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Kyle Smith | 10/28/11 12:00 PM | +1 I'm the IT Director for a K12 and administrate our Google Apps for EDU service for our school. I've been waiting for Google+ to be added to our services since it was announced; more so since Hangouts with Extras was released. We've been using Goo |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | danmo | 10/28/11 12:46 PM | I would be VERY happy if they added the ability to do hang-outs from Docs without G+... The rest of G+ means little to k-12, but the video collaboration is simply awesome! -Dan |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | grelaford | 10/28/11 4:05 PM | I'm the IT director at a private 6-12 school with LOTS of technology use in the classroom. Google+ and profiles would be fantastic in K-12, for several reasons, and much better than using Facebook. Consider the possibilities with students collabora |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | jevers | 10/29/11 7:02 AM | +1 Totally agree. Our school embraces technology as well. How are our kids going to learn about social media, etc. if we ban it from school. Showing them the potential is the way forward. So ease the restrictions on K12 and Google Plus |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | techyteacher78 | 10/29/11 9:06 AM | +1 Couldn't agree more with everything that's been said here... I too admin our school's Google Aps for Edu service and the educational potential of being able to engage with under 18's in this social sphere is huge... So many positive outcomes (esp |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | rasqual | 10/29/11 10:14 PM | But folks, it's not just that it's restricted by age. It's that as admins, you're not given a choice to use it with even your adults, merely because you're a K12 institution. The only plausible explanation is that Google doesn't want kids using the |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Daeng Bo | 10/30/11 12:05 AM | rasquia,This is actually my main frustration. We aren't given control over it. Like I said, Profiles should be enabled privately, with visibility set by the admin and G+ should be usable either privately or publicly for those of proper age. We have d |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | glimmen | 10/30/11 2:33 PM | We have also very much been looking forward to using Google plus, both for school kids and our teachers. Google plus have a lot of potential for the learning process. Not to let Google Apps admins to control the service even for the adults in an EDU |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | GuyGG7 | 10/31/11 1:11 PM | Yeah, this was a major letdown, to find that it had been lit up for all Apps users, EXCEPT K12. I'm with Rasqual on this one. Currently just have admin staff using Apps, not students, and Plus would be a perfect fit for much of the ad-hoc communicati |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | JamoCHCS | 10/31/11 9:20 PM | +1 We are hanging out for it, even as a way to inform our staff of goings on. Hurry up google, let us use google plus in K-12! |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | rasqual | 11/1/11 11:04 AM | Actually, for ANY organization controls need to be put in play whether kids are involved or not. With app "groups," visibility outside the organization could be controlled for on a domain-wide level. With Plus, this seems impossible. One of my domain |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | dissertations | 11/4/11 12:15 PM | http://www.study-aids.co.uk |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Fitchburg Tech | 11/7/11 7:58 AM | Agreed 100%. We have two separate domains--one for staff and one for students. We can keep Google+ blocked from students while the 18+ restrictions are in place, but our staff are all 18+ and can use Google+ with no problems against the terms of us |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | HLC Intrnational | 11/23/11 10:37 PM | I agreed with all those saying YES to Google+ for K-12 schools. Social engines are being developed by so many others that techno-savvy schools are using to great effect. google+ will be the best solution for those schools already using Apps. Besides |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | MikeDude | 12/14/11 8:25 PM | Here is a great fix for those K-12 schools needing to use the Google+ for their faculty and staff. Mike Morris "The Google Apps Dude for Education" is a Google Apps for Edu Certified Consultant and has two Google Apps Domains ProsOffice.net or CoolOf |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | rasqual | 5/31/12 7:56 AM | Google keeps announcing things that would be of enormous benefit to K12 educators for remote training and other purposes, and yet K12 is still left out in the cold with Plus. http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | rasqual | 5/31/12 7:59 AM | And when you think of all the training possibilities: http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html ...the denial of Plus to K12 is insane. |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | jcray | 7/20/12 11:12 AM | We have a domain that only consists of adults. I don't see that limiting k12 is a reasonable decision, some universities even take students under 18. ... What Daeng Bo said about native profile support is exciting me as well, being able to actually |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | prestonpeine | 9/13/12 8:06 AM | I want to make certain this thread stays relevant even though it is nearly a year old. I would be happy to accept a policy that states I am only allowed to offer the Google Plus features to users over the age of 18. That is a simple issue on my end o |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Derek_R | 9/13/12 8:25 AM | p, I agree with you, but I think the restriction is probably due to underlying technical issues concerning bandwidth capacity. Hangouts use a lot of network bandwidth. |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | Another_Apps-Admin | 9/27/12 4:37 AM | We're a German K12 school and we're waiting for G+ too. It would be very helpful for our workflow and to keep the staff up to date. Hopefully K12-scholls will be possible to use it, soon! |
| Re: Plus and K12 education | howardshippin | 10/8/12 7:30 AM | I think Google is shutting K12 schools out of Google+ for vague legal issues or lack of trust in Apps administrators rather than technological issues, because the means are already there for admins to determine which services are made available to di |