Archive for the ‘primary school email’ Category

• Choosing the right email solution for your school.

  Date: 2010.01.13 | Category: ICT, primary school email, school email | Response: 2

  You may think that choosing an email solution for your school is straight forward, but over the recent years more and more companies have moved into the Email for schools market. This means you now have a selection of different vendors that can provide very different email solutions.

  Let’s take a look at the different options and what they can offer your school.

  
  

  

  Excluded from this comparison are “internal only” email systems as I fail to see how they offer anything more than the systems that offer both internal and external access with an option to turn off external access.. Also excluded are VLE “solutions” that “have” email because let’s face it, if I was comparing dishwashers I wouldn’t include fitted kitchens….

  Part 2 coming next week.

• Troubleshooting Google Apps and Shibboleth

  Date: 2009.11.24 | Category: apps, google, ICT, primary, primary email, primary school email, Primary School ICT, school email | Response: 0

  If you receive an “invalid email” error or invalid user then this is probably due to the fact that the username provided by your identity provider doesn’t match the username created in Google Apps. To remedy this check to see if the user account exists in Google Apps, if so then contact your identity provider and ask them to tell you what username they are sending so you can create the relevant account.

• Testing your Primary School Google Apps Education Edition Configuration

  Date: 2009.11.24 | Category: apps, google, ICT, primary, primary email, primary school email, Primary School ICT, school email | Response: 0

  You can test your different Google Apps by accessing the below URLS (REPLACE yourdomain.com with the domain name you chose to use and set up):

  http://sites.yourdomain.com – Your schools Google Sites

  http://docs.yourdomain.com – Your schools Google Docs

  By now you get the idea… You can also access your Google Apps (including the admin panel) at (REPLACE yourdomain.com with the domain name you chose to use and set up) http://google.com/a/yourdomain.com

  Got problems? Visit the Troubleshooting page à

• Configuring Single Sign on for Google Apps Education Edition to Primary Logon

  Date: 2009.11.24 | Category: apps, google, ICT, primary, primary email, primary school email, Primary School ICT, school email | Response: 0

  If you use Primary Logon or have a Shibboleth IDP representing your school you can achieve this. Visit http://google.com/a/yourdomain.com ß remember to replace yourdomain.com with your domain

  1. Login with your username and password
  2. Click Advanced Tools
  3. Click Set up single Sign on
  4. Under Sign-in page paste:
  5. https://idp.primarylogon.co.uk/idp/profile/SAML2/Redirect/SSO
  6. Under sign-out page paste:
  7. http://yourdomain.com or http://primarylogon.co.uk ß remember to replace yourdomain.com with your domain
  8. Under Change password URL paste:
  9. https://primarylogon.co.uk/password
  10. Click Browse to select your Verification Certificate – Type in http://primarylogon.co.uk/idp.crt
  11. Click Save Changes
  12. Click Users and groups
  13. Click Settings
  14. Put a Tick in the box “Enable Provisioning API”
  15. Click Save Changes
  16. Log out of Google apps
  17. Sign into Primary Logon at http://primarylogon.co.uk
  18. You need to be admin user on Primary Logon to do this.
  19. Click Control Panel
  20. Click Google Apps Docs
  21. Click Purchase
  22. Click OK
  23. Where you see Google Docs near the top you will see an input box. Type your school’s domain In this input box.
  24. Click the pencil.
  25. Click OK
  26. Wait 24 hours for user accounts to be made.

  Note: Schools who don’t use Primary Logon will have to a) contact their schools Shibboleth/UK Federation Identity provider(Probably your LA/Council) and request that they add a record to their IDP for your Google apps. Instructions to do this are available at http://www.mclear.co.uk/2009/11/shibboleth-idp-configuration-for.html and b) get the correct Identity Provider Sign in page, Sign out page and Change Password URL from their Identity Provider.

  Now you are done configuring you can get to Testing your Primary School Google Apps Education Edition Configuration à

• Registering Google Apps Education Edition for your Primary School

  Date: 2009.11.24 | Category: apps, google, ICT, primary, primary email, primary school email, Primary School ICT, school email | Response: 0

  Register for Google Apps Education Account

  1. Visit: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/get_apps.html
  2. Click KS12
  3. Click Sign Up Now
  4. Enter your domain name, click Continue sign up
  5. Fill in the next form and click Continue. Continue filling in forms until you get to your control panel.
  6. Wait up to a week while Google enable Google Apps Education Edition.

  Do not forget your username and password!

  I want to use Single Sign On – Take me to the configuration stage à

  I don’t want to use Single Sign On – Take me to the Testing stage à