Using G-Suite For Education For New MAT

[PrimaryNetMan]

Are there any MATs using G-Suite For Education? How do you do it? One G-Suite tenant with academies in their own OU? Trust & Individual Academy tenants?

 

Currently in a school that is about to be sponsored. The Trust have nothing in place yet and will initially consist of 2 schools. Both currently have their own G-Suite tenants.

[FN-GM]

We are a MAT with G-Suite. We have 1 tenant with an OU for each Academy. All IT services are share in this style.

[Olliesaurus]

We are a MAT with G-Suite. We have 1 tenant with an OU for each Academy. All IT services are share in this style.

 

Have recently been asked about this for a new MAT, most of the schools are running on Gsuite but I have never personally used Gsutie for MATs, only Office 365.

 

How do you rate Gsuite with MATs? did you have to migrate any of the other schools across from other services?

 

Sorry to ask so many questions, doesn't seem particularly well documented online!

 

Thanks

[FN-GM]

How do you rate Gsuite with MATs? did you have to migrate any of the other schools across from other services?

 

We like it, we are migrating from Office 365 currently. Answers both question in one hit

[mbuk70]

We also use GSuite for our MAT, any new academies that come on board who are with O365 are migrated across. We are currently re designing how GDrive works across the MAT so one new academies or staff join the MAT, they automatically have access to documents they need. Simple and reliable, like all things though, staff training is essential.

1 tenant which is the trust, currently 6 sub domains for each Academy, OU's setup with Teachers and Students then the Acadmies of those.

[Olliesaurus]

We also use GSuite for our MAT, any new academies that come on board who are with O365 are migrated across. We are currently re designing how GDrive works across the MAT so one new academies or staff join the MAT, they automatically have access to documents they need. Simple and reliable, like all things though, staff training is essential.

1 tenant which is the trust, currently 6 sub domains for each Academy, OU's setup with Teachers and Students then the Acadmies of those.

 

OK that sounds fairly straight forward!

 

Have you found any way to lock down the OUs administrator wise? probably a step to far really but not sure if its possible to lock down certain administrators to there own locations so that they cant effect any other locations.

 

Thanks for both your feedback!

[mjk]

OK that sounds fairly straight forward!

 

Have you found any way to lock down the OUs administrator wise? probably a step to far really but not sure if its possible to lock down certain administrators to there own locations so that they cant effect any other locations.

 

Thanks for both your feedback!

 

You can assign admins different permissions over different OU's. As well as delegating domains you can even give certain teachers access to students mailboxes, drive etc

 

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6129577?hl=en

[Olliesaurus]

Awesome, thank you!

 

Sounds like that would be the easier route to take

[fiza]

How do the contacts lists work when you have 1 tenancy with OUs for different Academies? How do you distinguish between users in different Schools?

[FN-GM]

How do you distinguish between users in different Schools?

 

The email address contains the school name.

[fiza]

The email address contains the school name.

 

Can you give an example of the format please?

[fiza]

Without opening another thread as this is related. Can someone tell me if its possible to register a Trust domain on G Suite for Education? We want our Trust domain on Google too but it will only have a handful of users. Is it better to register it with G Suite as a non-profit?

[jamesleonard]

For Trusts and Schools alike, register as G Suite for Education here (https://edu.google.co.uk/).

 

Click "get Google products" and complete the flow. (Step by step instructions in this video:

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