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This summer, in the face of uncertainty about how COVID-19 might affect in-person results days, we wanted to ensure our students would have the opportunity to access their qualification results online. That meant we needed a digital solution that could quickly, reliably, and securely share many thousands of results slips. All Outwood students have a school Google account, conveniently including access to a document-sharing platform: Google Drive. We used Drive and some simple scripts to create a straightforward yet effective solution that leveraged our existing infrastructure. ...

After two years of planning, collaboration, and phased rollouts, Outwood has successfully completed its migration to GSuite—marking a major step forward in how we work and communicate 🎉 Our migration journey: Initial adoption of Google Classroom Trust-wide rollout of core Google productivity tools (Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides) Staff training and development Phased email and calendar migration Our decision to move to GSuite was driven by our commitment to providing the best possible digital tools for our students and staff. The initial deployment supported our adoption of Google Classroom, championed by curriculum leads in Computer Science Colleagues across the trust quickly expanded that remit after experiencing the more flexible collaboration offered by GSuite. The difference from our previous on-premises solution was especially pronounced, coming from fragmented systems, with siloed document sharing and calendars increasingly frustrating trust-wide collaboration. ...