Google Workspace for Education (G Suite) is a free package from google for not-for-profit academic institutions. The package provides necessary applications to run online classes and manage daily administrative tasks in the institution within a fully centralised and managed platform. The package gives the option to create domain-specific email ids for teachers, students and staff in the institution which gives the administrator complete control over the user and their data. Applications such as Gmail, Google classroom and Meet becomes available to all users with unlimited storage on their respective google drive. Live meetings, material distribution, live recording, assignments and test paper options are available on this platform. We help institutions to register and implement the platform along with training and support for the teachers and students. Contact us for more details.
Microsoft Office 365 for Education is also a free package from Microsoft for not-for-profit academic institutions. It helps an institution or a group of institutions to be managed under one platform for their online teaching-learning and administrative purposes. The application Microsoft Teams is robust and flexible to support the online teaching and administrative needs of the institution. Live meetings, material distribution, live recording, assignments and test paper options are available on this platform. Hundreds of applications are available to be clubbed with Teams to add additional functionalities to the application. We help institutions to register and implement the platform along with training and support for the teachers and students. Contact us for more details.
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Major Functionalities |
G Suite |
MS Teams |
APP |
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1 |
Mobile app |
Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Desktop app |
Yes |
Yes |
CLASSROOM FACILITIES |
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1 |
File uploads (Materials such as notes and videos) |
Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Assignments |
Yes |
Yes |
3 |
Assignment correction |
Yes |
No |
4 |
Quizzes and polls |
Yes |
Yes |
5 |
Test paper – Using assignment option |
Yes |
Yes |
6 |
Classroom insights (Analysis) |
No |
Yes |
LIVE SESSION MANAGEMENT |
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1 |
Video conference |
Yes |
Yes |
2 |
Attendance |
No (P) |
Yes |
3 |
Meeting recording – desktop app |
Yes |
Yes |
4 |
Meeting recording – mobile app |
No |
Yes |
5 |
Screensharing option |
Yes |
Yes |
6 |
Chat option |
Yes |
Yes |
7 |
Whiteboard integration |
Yes |
Yes |
8 |
Meeting security options – control over student behaviour |
Yes – Partial |
Yes – Full |
9 |
Meeting security options – control over outside domain access |
Yes |
Yes |
10 |
Maximum number of participants in a meeting |
100 (P) |
300 (P) |
11 |
Single meeting duration |
24 Hrs |
No Limit |
12 |
Live steaming |
No (P) |
No (P) |
ADMINISTRATION |
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1 |
Number of users in the school account |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
2 |
Email ids in school domain |
Yes |
Yes |
3 |
User management – Backend administration |
Yes |
Yes |
4 |
User privileges management |
Yes |
Yes |
5 |
Storage per user |
100 TB |
1 TB |