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.
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.
