Technical Services - Value Added Services - Things you won’t have to think about
Why invest in realsmart? 1. Technical Services
Quick and easy Google set-up • We register and set up your Google Apps for Education domain directly with Google. • Utilise your existing domain if you’ve already registered one and help you to set it up and add MIS synchronisation. • Help you to understand and create organisational structures for easy management of permissions and settings (i.e. turn off Chat for learners, turn on Google+ for staff, allow staff to create blogger accounts, upload to YouTube, etc.).
MIS to Google synchronisation: ‘smartpass’ • Our ‘smartpass’ tool will extract classes and groups as well as individuals and user types (i.e. teacher / student) from your MIS and automatically create them in realsmart, your Google Apps domain and your website. • smartpass will keep your users, classes and groups up-to-date automatically, making it easy to manage because you don’t have to do anything!
Single Sign On to your other web apps • smartpass can provide a Single Sign On (SSO) to third party web applications. This provides a ‘1-click’ access point to your chosen web apps, making it easy for teachers. • We can create a SSO with third party suppliers without charge to the school. • There are some great free apps out there - apps that are your choice to use. We can help you to make them easily accessible by plugging them in and providing a SSO through the web front-end.
Technical Services - Value Added Services - Things you won’t have to think about
Why invest in realsmart? 2. Value Added Services
Google Certified Training and Consultancy • We provide on-demand support, guidance and consultancy from qualified Google Apps for Education trainers, available to anyone in your school. This is important because you can talk to a real person about an issue or a question, rather than submitting an online support ticket and waiting for an email response from Google. • We are the first and only official UK Google Apps for Education Training Centre. This means we have the right expertise and have already rolled out Google Apps across 100s of schools. • We share our knowledge and good practice across the realsmartcloud community through regular email communications and support blog posts. If we discover how to do something new and amazing, we share it with you for free!
Great web front-end (school website/ intranet/ portal) • Easily share and celebrate learning on your website/ portal/ intranet in real time. • Easily manage editorial permissions and add or edit simple or media-rich posts. • Personalise content across realsmartcloud for the logged-in user, i.e. create a post for a user type (mentor), which shows them their personalised data dashboard from Google Apps. • A personalised view and SSO to your chosen web apps.
realsmart learning portfolio • Contextualise your learning content from all of your web apps into your learning portfolio. • Easy tools for building and sharing content quickly and easily - mindmaps, blogs, AFL units, websites and learning passports. • Feedback to learners easily and within the context of the bigger picture.
Technical Services - Value Added Services - Things you won’t have to think about
Why invest in realsmart? 3. And...
The things you won’t have to think about! • Having the expertise to write 1000s of lines of code to automate the process yourself. • Manually creating and regularly updating all groups/classes. • What happens when it goes wrong? Who is supporting YOU? • Where to get Google Apps training and support from. • Limiting the number of changes to your website because you’re restricted by cost. • How do we keep moving forward? We are here to keep you up-to-date with new features, news from Google Apps, and general advice to achieve what you want from your learning platform at no extra cost. There are no additional ‘modules’ to purchase - our support service is included in the annual licence fee, as is our ongoing expertise.