Google Apps for Education Suitev.s.

Microsoft Office 365 for EDU“What they’ll never tell you in a sales presentation”

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This Session

Both of these cloud based solutions are excellent products, extraordinary in their ability to deliver value to educational institutions, or at least that’s what the companies will tell you. What is the real truth?

This session will strip away all the hype and fluff and provide you with the unvarnished truth about these two solutions.

Attendees will gain information they will never have obtained from sitting through either vendor’s presentation.

Survey The Audience

1. Already have Google Apps for Education Suite (GAFEs) and hope to enhance your knowledge

2. Already have Microsoft Office 365 for EDU in place and want to improve your environment

3. At a decision point whether to go one way or the other

4. Got lost on the Internet and wandered into this seminar

Google Apps for Education vs. Office 365Google Microsoft – Free Education (E1)

Docs Word Online

Sheets Excel Online

Slides PowerPoint Online

OneNote Online

Gmail Outlook / Exchange Online

Calendar Outlook / Exchange Online

Drive OneDrive

Sites SharePoint

Google Plus Yammer

Google Classroom Teacher Dashboard

Hangouts Skype for Business / (Lync)

E1 – Free for Students, Free for Faculty E3 - $2.50/mth for Students, $4.50/mth for Faculty

User maximum Unlimited Unlimited

Full Office No Yes, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, OneNote, and Access for 5 users

Office on tablets and phones No Yes

Online Version Yes, only way to access Word, Excel, etc Yes

1TB OneDrive Yes Yes

50GB Inbox Yes Yes

Online meetings, video, conferencing

Yes Yes

School Intranet Yes Yes

School “Facebook” Yes, Yammer Yes, Yammer

Enterprise Management No Yes

eDiscovery No Yes

Google Classroom

Microsoft Dashboard – Teacher & Student

NEW!! MS Student Information System Sync

In This Corner!!!

Strengths of GAFES - Google Classroom-Breadth of Developers and educators-No Charges, always free

And in this Corner!

Strengths of Office 365 for EDU- Office suite, off line, 5 user license (for

pay)- Better support, partner community,

contacts- Innovative SIS-sync, and Teacher

Dashboard

Questions that Google Would Like to Avoid• Can you tell me the number of apps that are not available on Chromebooks or via

a Google Classroom such as Design Tools?• What do I do if I have to run Microsoft Office for by Student Information System or

other administrative function, do you suggest I run both Google and Microsoft?• How do teachers share easily with administrators who are only running Microsoft

Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint and not loose fidelity of the Word, Excel and PowerPoint document?• How do parents, who run Office apps at work, such as PowerPoint, help their kids

with Google Slides?• What do you suggest if I don’t have access to the Internet or I want to work

offline?• How does Google respond to Microsoft products like OneNote?

Questions that Google Would Like to Avoid• How do I handle some of the advanced functions available in Excel

that Sheets won’t do or special transitions I can do in PowerPoint that Slides won’t do?• Isn’t Microsoft’s recently released Teacher Dashboard for Office 365

just as functional as Google Classroom?• While you are scanning my schools email for virus and malware,

aren’t you also collecting information to sell for adverstising?

Questions Microsoft Would like to Avoid• The number of teachers that are developing content for Google is four or five times

the number for Office, true?• The focus and customization that Google Classroom has as compared to Microsoft

Office 365, addressing teaching methods etc. Do you have specific training on this like Google does on Classroom?• Google is free, free, free, can you say the same thing?• Google Apps Marketplace compared to Office 365 marketplace, doesn’t Google

have many more apps?• If I don’t have Office Apps installed locally, what do I do if I need to work offline with

my Office 365 web apps?• Why haven’t schools developed more process and teacher support for products like

OneNote?

Questions Microsoft Would like to Avoid• SharePoint seems like over kill for things that I would use Google Sites for. It seems

much easier to create and share documents for my class in Google Sites, how do you respond to that?• Google is innovative and creating new things for education all the time but Microsoft is

usually playing “me too”, true?• I run Macbooks, iPad’s, Windows PC’s and Android tablets, isn’t a fully cloud based

solution like Google a much easier way to handle all these devices rather than worrying about locally installed applications requiring different versions and applications?• My kids prefer Chrome browser and I run into problems with IE running Google apps,

why is that? • What if I want to move to very inexpensive Chromebooks in my district, I can’t run

Office 365 very well, right?

And the Winner is….!

Who Wins?

• You Do…• Both are great products for different reasons• Both have advanced the ability of education to deliver on its mission• Both have disadvantages you need to avoid

• So..• Do you have all the facts you need to make a decision?• Do you understand the impact these technologies will make on your

organization• Would you like some unbiased help to sort fact from fiction?