The WWPS has been steadily moving to a completely cloud environment over the last three years. Three years ago we moved away from our Windows Exchange server environment, and implemented Google Applications for Education or GAFE for our faculty and staff. We piloted student accounts at all three levels (elementary, middle & HS) two years ago, and finally added student Google accounts for every student K-12 during the 2012-2013 school year. Recently we made the commitment to move to a Chromebook environment for all of our students, and most of the staff.
The district is also making a commitment to reduce the number of file servers that we support. It takes a lot of resources (time, money and IT staff intervention) to keep our file servers running. Most of our servers are older than our 4th graders, and we don't have the resources to replace them. It only makes sense for us to move network files into the cloud. I've completely moved all of my files into Google Drive for more than a year now.
As the song goes, "It's summertime, and the living is easy..." Now is the perfect time to shed your local network drive, and place all of your files from your WWPS network folder into Google Drive. Adding all of your files into your Google Drive will give you access to your files whenever, and wherever you log into Google Chrome. It doesn't matter what device you're on (Chromebook, Windows, or Mac) you'll always have access to your files via your Google Drive account. You also have a combined Drive/email allotment of 30 GB of storage space.
If you would like to learn more about moving your network drive to your Google Drive simply fill out the online form. Someone from the WWPS IT staff will contact you once you've completed the online form. You can also review the directions here, and try it yourself. Either way the WWPS IT Department will help you in any way needed.
The district is also making a commitment to reduce the number of file servers that we support. It takes a lot of resources (time, money and IT staff intervention) to keep our file servers running. Most of our servers are older than our 4th graders, and we don't have the resources to replace them. It only makes sense for us to move network files into the cloud. I've completely moved all of my files into Google Drive for more than a year now.
As the song goes, "It's summertime, and the living is easy..." Now is the perfect time to shed your local network drive, and place all of your files from your WWPS network folder into Google Drive. Adding all of your files into your Google Drive will give you access to your files whenever, and wherever you log into Google Chrome. It doesn't matter what device you're on (Chromebook, Windows, or Mac) you'll always have access to your files via your Google Drive account. You also have a combined Drive/email allotment of 30 GB of storage space.
If you would like to learn more about moving your network drive to your Google Drive simply fill out the online form. Someone from the WWPS IT staff will contact you once you've completed the online form. You can also review the directions here, and try it yourself. Either way the WWPS IT Department will help you in any way needed.
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