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#2If this is a Blackboard competitor, that's good news. Google definitely has the bankroll and patent magazine to go toe-to-toe with them, which could open up a lot of options in the higher education space.
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#3If this is a Blackboard competitor, that's good news. Google definitely has the bankroll and patent magazine to go toe-to-toe with them, which could open up a lot of options in the higher education space.
Agreed. It has been a few years since I was in college but the Blackboard software had a long way to go but they were the main one on the market.
Would be nice to see some competition to encourage growth.
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#4A good way to push the chromebook
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#5Personally I'd love to have this as a part of my normal Google Apps. It would be a neat way to create tutorials and documentation for my teammates.
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#6A good way to push the chromebook
Speaking of... I saw this on the Chromebook page "Chromebooks start at just $249 with a $30 management fee per device."
Does Apple or other vendors charge a similar "management fee" to this? Unless I'm missing something, the fees will surpass the per-unit pricing before the first year.
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#7My university has GApps, and also it has a longstanding Moodle platform. Moodle is awful. It's much better than it used to be, but it's still clunky and ugly. If this is Google's solution, I'd like to see it take off. It'd be easy to integrate and switch from Moodle.
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#8A good way to push the chromebook
Speaking of... I saw this on the Chromebook page "Chromebooks start at just $249 with a $30 management fee per device." Does Apple or other vendors charge a similar "management fee" to this? Unless I'm missing something, the fees will surpass the per-unit pricing before the first year.
Things like Windows Server (required for SCCM, I believe), Jamf Casper, and FileWave all cost money.
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#9If this is a Blackboard competitor, that's good news. Google definitely has the bankroll and patent magazine to go toe-to-toe with them, which could open up a lot of options in the higher education space.
I doubt it. Blackboard is a full blown Learning Management System (LMS). This looks more like an Edmodo competitor -> pretty much like a Hangouts for Classrooms.
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#10Crittenden Middle School in Mountain View has switched over to this, we love it. The amount of parent/student/teacher collaboration and transparency is unparalleled.
BTW: they're not using Chrome Books, but some kind of fancy HP Android tablets.