GOPHER TOOLS
Streamline and Simplify Google Workspace for Education Management
Equip your IT admins with greater insight and control over your school’s devices, users, email, and storage, while saving them time and expending less resources with Gopher Tools.
Reduce Manual, Repetitive and Tedious Tasks
As your school expands its edtech stack, your IT admins are juggling competing priorities and may not have the capacity to effectively and efficiently manage your Google Workspace for Education domain or fleet of Chromebooks. Gopher Tools are a series of Google Sheets add-ons that boost productivity by extending the capabilities of core Google Workspace applications: Chrome, Groups, Users, Gmail and Drive.
"All these tools have been totally awesome and I do not know how we managed without them for so long!"
Technology Director Kings Canyon Unified School District, CA
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Each Gopher Tool can be purchased à la carte or an all-inclusive bundle, the Gopher Pack.
Gopher for Chrome Premium
Chromebooks require regular software maintenance. Focus more on getting devices in classrooms and less on managing them with bulk updating OS, asset ID’s, usernames, and settings.
- Move devices between OUs, enable devices, and edit annotated fields in bulk
- Filter and search device data by criteria such as serial number, asset ID, user, location, and model number to find specific devices
- Generate automated reports of 100,000 devices in a couple of minutes to review device stats
- Share actionable insights, like device usage and health, with stakeholders
- Nudge users to update and reboot their devices
- Access the Support Team for tickets, the Help Center for knowledge-based articles, and office hours for questions
Gopher for Groups
Foster safe communication and collaboration between your administrators, teachers, and students in the digital spaces designated just for them. Delegate access permissions for joining and posting, and implement setting updates.
- Update all group settings, name, emails directly in a Google Sheet, and apply filters to specify group updates
- Preview changes before bulk application
- Quickly import Google Groups settings available via Google’s APIs
- Filter for key online privacy and safety risks like permissive joining or posting
- Perform advanced group membership analysis, identify nested groups, and search for groups set to “all in domain”
Gopher for Users
Your domain hosts an ever-changing community of users that can be difficult to monitor. Import, organize, update and move users in the Admin console, reset and distribute passwords, suspend, archive and reactivate accounts, and update important user information all in bulk.
- Create new users in the right OUs and Google Groups, and delete them in bulk
- Make property and profile attribute changes to all users, or individual ones using query options and sheets filters
- Get a granular preview of changes, optimally exclude any fields, before performing bulk actions and syncing them to the Google Admin console
- Access a list of group memberships for each user and add or remove them at scale
Gopher for Gmail
Email systems are vulnerable to phishing attacks, FERPA breaches, and inappropriate sends that evade Google’s auto-detection and filters. Enable super admins to mitigate threats and rectify incidents by recalling those emails from Gmail inboxes.
- Reduce risk with a simple user interface that doesn’t require Google Apps Manager (GAM) commands
- Target deletion of unintended or malicious emails when they end up in the wrong inboxes
- Threat remediation by searching, previewing and removing email related to phishing attacks, malware, or accidental sharing of information
- Improve accountability with a permanent log of all admin actions that is accessible to other admins
Note that this is not a full CDW Education Collaborative membership.
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Instead of manually deploying, updating, and managing each Chromebook, adopt Gopher for Chrome Premium into your workflow.
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Google Workspace for Education
Google Workspace for Education is a suite of tools that boosts productivity, facilitates collaboration, and makes communication easier.
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Why Work with CDW Education?
Our consultants have more than three decades’ worth of experience in education. With CDW, you’ll receive the services and solutions your administrators, educators and students need to be successful in your Google Workspace for Education environment. You’ll also have access to a team of experts who are ready to support your journey and help you leverage the full potential of your domain with Admin Tools Unlimited.
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