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With G Suite for Education, you can challenge your students to collaborate and exchange ideas and insights.

Start an online lecture or workgroup with Google Meet for up to 250 persons
Uploading Google Docs as assignments
Enabling collaboration
Submitting homework from Google Drive (students)
Inserting content from Google Drive right into modules

Basics of Google Apps for Education

How can you use Google Apps for Education to help students collaborate together on a assignment? Here you can find basic instructions on how to use Google Apps for Education.

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If you cannot find your question here, try to find it in the FAQ.

Assignments

When using Google apps for an assignment make sure you communicate well about your expectations, the criteria and the deadline! Do you want to get more tips regarding assignments? Please have a look at this didactical page about creating assignments.

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Feedback

When using Google apps for written feedback make sure that the feedback is timely and make use of the course criteria! Do you want to get more tips regarding feedback? Please have a look at this didactical page about giving and receiving feedback.

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The most up-to-date FAQ can be found on this website of Google.

VU specific FAQ

+ I am trying to access a Google document, but my access is denied, what is wrong?

The problem above indicates that you are not logged in with your VU account. To make sure you are licensed and to take advantage of the benefits of the VU account, you might want to check your login procedure. Please click here.

The VU has a contract and a data processing agreement with the supplier. These contain all kinds of provisions that prohibit the supplier from using personal data of VU employees and VU students for their own purposes (such as reselling). There are also a variety of security agreements in the agreement about when employees of the supplier may view data (almost never) that enters the application and what the supplier must do to minimize the chance that third parties can view or change data.

The supplier provides institutions such as the VU with an administrator dashboard. This allows the VU to enforce all kinds of settings on the VU users, which makes the tool a lot more secure. To guarantee the privacy and security, of teachers and students, it is important that you use this tool with a VU account instead of a private account.

Do you have a question?

Your faculty has support to help you with everything regarding educational tools. You can find your faculty contact information here.

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Rather set up an appointment?

Using a new tool can be challenging and it can take some time to master the new tool. That's why the VU Education Lab offers the possibility to set up your first learning activity using this tool together with an expert, for free. Use this form or send an email to onderwijswerkplaats@vu.nl.

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