GOOGLE CLASSROOM

 

Google Classroom in GSuite for Education 

We use G Suite for Education - a set of education productivity tools from Google including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Classroom, and more used by tens of millions of students and teachers around the world. Pupils will use their G Suite accounts to complete assignments, communicate with their teachers and learn 21st century digital citizenship skills, using mostly Google Classroom. 

We use a special version of the core G Suite Apps to provide a secure learning intranet for our pupils and staff.

Children use a Gmail login to access our system servers and the intranet and internet in school. With school Gmail and Google Docs, for example, work and emails cannot be shared with external email accounts, only with others within @stjosephssale.org - the school’s Google domain. Google require basic information to set up these accounts, your child’s leaving year and name.  

Google Cloud does contain much of the electronic work that your child completes in school. By logging in at home, using the same login as at school, your child can continue working on projects started in school, often using one of the main apps of G Suite, Google Classroom.

Our pupil accounts have a particular set of security settings to reflect the fact that the system is being used by a child - they have a much higher security setting than our staff for example. We take advice on these settings from companies that advise us.

On leaving the school, we can transfer your child’s digital learning record to his/her own gmail account through the Google TakeOut system - the school does not then retain any data.  This can be a wonderful souvenir of learning. Google accounts are deleted within a few weeks of a child leaving St Joseph's.

Google’s Privacy Policy for GSuite can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/update

The information below from Google provides answers to common questions about what they can and can’t do with your child’s personal information, including:

  • What personal information does Google collect?
  • How does Google use this information?
  • Will Google disclose my child’s personal information?
  • Does Google use student personal information for users in K-12 schools to target advertising?
  • Can my child share information with others using the G Suite for Education account?

G Suite for Education information for Parents and Guardians

This notice describes the personal information we provide to Google for these accounts and how Google collects, uses, and discloses personal information from pupils in connection with these accounts. 

Using their G Suite for Education accounts, pupils may access and use the following “Core Services” offered by Google Classroom (described at https://gsuite.google.com/terms/user_features.html): 

  • Gmail
  • Calendar
  • Docs
  • Sheets
  • Slides
  • Forms
  • Drive
  • Sites