Google Apps Education in India – Is it available free to all schools, colleges or universities?

Google Apps Education is another interesting acheivement of Google towards aiming for better communication, collaboration among school & college students. Google Apps education is a huge success in US and already many universities across US is using it for their following purposes,

• To create their college email IDs (like manoj@iitm.edu, gobu@iimb.edu or murugs@pec.edu)
• For collaborating documents using google docs (sharing project works, etc)
• Using calendar to schedule their weekly exams
• Also creating their own sites using Google Sites (teachers also can effectively use this system to communicate to students)

Google apps is a free cloud-based communication and collaboration system developed especially for schools, colleges and universities. It can be used very effectively across the campus for staff members, professors, students & board.

Most importantly, Google Apps education is FREE for all educational institutions and available in www.google.com/a/edu

Very lately, people were raising questions in some of the google forums and other spaces. Whether Google Apps Education is available for Indian schools and colleges? Is it free? It can be purchased from reseller, do we have contacts to install & setup the system?

• Yes, it is available in India and its free.
• You can purchase it from reseller who can help you in setting up the system. And there are many Google Apps Certified Resellers in India, who can help on creating the system like mails setup, security setup, server settings, etc.,

Already few colleges in India have implemented and using Google Apps Education Edition for their colleges. Especially in Tamilnadu, there are around 4 colleges include Vickram College of Engineering. Basically Google Apps Education provides the following,

• Google Apps Education Edition
• Google Enterprise Search
• Google Security and Compliance
• Google Earth & Maps

Learn more about GoogleApps Education here: http://edu.googleapps.com/Home

If you need any help or questions in setting up Google Apps Education Edition in India, please leave your comments here.

6 Comments

Google Apps Reseller India June 1, 2010

If your Institution needs Google Apps, just give us a call or send us a mail to contact@pi2square.com
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Dustin May 11, 2010

Hi,
We are “Authorized Reseller” for “Google Apps” be it the standard, enterprise, non-profit or Educational editions. For more details write to admin@zurinox.com
Thanks,
Dustin
zurinox.com
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Niju Mohan March 8, 2010

Thanks for the help…
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Niju Mohan March 8, 2010

Did Google stopped providing Google Apps education edition in India. What are the procedures in setting up a Google Apps Education edition in my college. What is the time frame required.? What is the cost involved?
Please reply asap…
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Manoj Govindassamy March 8, 2010

@niju, We are talking to a google apps reseller. Will ask the concerned persons mail you the details.
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Google Apps February 23, 2010

We are the authorized reseller for Google Apps. Please contact for any help for your migration:
Thanks,
Brio
gapps.brio.co.in
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