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This is an excellent post by Martin Weller from the OU.

School admins can quickly and securely prepare their school's Chromebooks to go home with students. Chromebooks are remotely managed through the Google Admin console, making it simple for schools and IT administrators to deploy and manage thousands of devices. For example, Admins can restrict device access to managed student accounts or set "Off Hours" when students can sign in with their personal accounts. They may also use URL blacklists to set content restrictions and ensure that students are held to the same responsible-use policies off-campus as they are inside their classrooms.

School admins can quickly and securely prepare their school's Chromebooks to go home with students. Find out how to do so in Google Admin Console and best practices from the Chrome team.

"How can time-pressured academics design effective blended and online courses aligned to the Connected Curriculum?"

Google are making advanced features in Hangouts Meet available to schools around the globe using G Suite for Education, so that educators can continue connecting with students and facilitating remote learning. This will include the ability to record meetings, livestream up to 100k people and add 250 people to a Hangout. These features will be available at no additional cost to all G Suite for Education customers until July 1, 2020. The team is expediting approvals in the most highly impacted markets, and providing ways for sales team members to request exceptions.

Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings (Updated) : Amazing Educational Resources

AWS resources to support remote learning and working

This is a support group to share best practice, resources, experiences and insights into what is working well for organisations leveraging the virtual environment for meetings and learning events.