Saturday, 30 September 2017

editLock - New Google Sheets Add-on

Google Sheets are incredibly powerful for collaboration and it's great that they can be worked on simultaneously. Sometimes though, you want to add a bit more protection to stop people editing things that they shouldn't. You can protect cells...
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Tuesday, 8 August 2017

calendarMap - Get Calendar Events on a Google Map

We are delighted to announce the beta launch of a new free tool called calendarMap. This web app allows you to select any of your Google Calendars and place all events that have a location on a Google Map. You can even set custom date...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017

MIS assessment data now available in schoolsmartPortal!

After some beta testing and fine tuning, we're pleased to announce that we can now integrate schools' assessment data into schoolsmartPortal. School admins have full control to simply choose which result sets they would like students...
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Monday, 21 November 2016

schoolsmartPortal Updates and Teasers

Updates We've been working hard behind the scenes to streamline the sync between MIS systems and your Google domain. We're really pleased to announce that we can now sync with the following MIS systems: Capita SIMS RM Integris Scolarpack Progresso Facility CMIS iSAMS Bromcom Arbor Pupil Asset If you're not sure what schoolsmartPortal...
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Saturday, 29 October 2016

Setup solution: Chromebooks for exams

The JCQ (UK) requires that if a student has exams access arrangements to use a laptop, then it should not have access to the internet. With Chromebooks there's a variety of ways in getting round this normally using a kiosk app. It's still a little bit of a grey area though, and although you can completely restrict access to other websites...
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Friday, 14 October 2016

Google Certified Educator Practice Exams

NEW FREE RESOURCE - We've developed a practice exam for the Google Educator Level 1 exam that automatically marks your performance and gives you immediate feedback! (You also get an awesome certificate if you pass!). Read on to find out more... Google...
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Sunday, 26 June 2016

myBadges - our brand new product!

I'm really pleased to announce myBadges - our brand new product as part of the schoolsmartPortal suite. It's a fully integrated badge system for Google Apps for Education that makes it really easy to: reward and track success without...
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