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Synchronize Your Institution's User Data with Google for Education Provisioning

Google for Education Provisioning uses Google Cloud Directory Sync (GCDS) and, optionally, Google Password Sync (GPS) to automate the process of updating user information in your institution’s Google Workspace for Education domain straight from your LDAP. Additionally, Google for Education Provisioning offers a GFE Sync that allows clients to auto-provision users and groups from a CSV.

Eliminate Disparities and Keep Your User Accounts Up to Date

Whether administrators take on additional responsibilities, educators are assigned new classes, or students are promoted to the next grade, academic institutions experience a lot of movement within their Google environment. Manually ensuring that user accounts are properly created, configured and updated can become one of your technical staff’s most time-consuming tasks, particularly when operating in a system external to Google Workspace, like their SIS or Active Directory. 

GCDS Provisioning Overview

With GCDS (and GPS) Google for Education Provisioning, our Google IT Specialists will help you avoid inevitable inconsistencies and reduce wasted time by automating how user accounts are created, updated, disabled, and deleted for them.

Google for Education Provisioning includes:

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Institutions receive a custom configuration to synchronize data from LDAP to Google Workspace for Education that will undergo thorough testing prior to live deployment.

*Note: GPS is optional

GFE Sync Provisioning Overview

GFE Sync Google for Education Provisioning down the workload for technical staff who are currently manually provisioning users by allowing automated provisioning from an SIS or any system that can provide a CSV export. 

GFE Sync Google for Education Provisioning includes:

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Institutions receive a custom configuration to synchronize data from CSV to Google Workspace for Education that will undergo thorough testing prior to live deployment.

Ensure your provisioning methods are meeting the needs of your institution.

Speak to an account manager about GCDS Google for Education Provisioning or GFE Sync Google for Education Provisioning.

Call 800.808.4239