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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.

Google Educators Groups (GEGs) help bring local educators together in person and online to learn, share, and inspire one another.

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.

Explore distance learning resources for schools affected by COVID-19. This is for educators and IT administrators preparing for potential school closures - or currently facing them - here are a few ways to engage students through distance learning.

The Google for Education Certified Innovator Program recognizes and supports top educators around the globe who are using technology to solve meaningful challenges in education.

With school closures, teachers can keep their lessons going remotely

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.

Jisc has compiled a list of publishers and content providers who are widening access to their resources in various ways, with details of the content and measures to access them. The list is updated as we receive survey responses or further information. Please bookmark https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/about/resources-for-coronavirus-crisis To enable screen reader support, press Ctrl+Alt+Z To learn about keyboard shortcuts, press Ctrl+slash

"A temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis."

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A list of corporations and service providers who are offering special discounts on technology, open educational resources, or support for higher education institutions transitioning to remote work and online learning during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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