Google For Education Partner

20 Years Of Customized Google for Education Solutions

Leverage the expertise that has empowered hundreds of thousands of K-12 users with impactful Google for Education solutions.

At Five Star Technology Solutions, we provide customized services designed to align perfectly with your district’s unique vision for learning. We build meaningful partnerships, taking an individualized approach to amplify your educational goals and create tailored Google environments that drive student success. Whether you’re just starting your Google Workspace for Education journey or seeking expert assistance with your existing infrastructure, our comprehensive Google for Education Services are ready to tackle any challenge. Partner with us to ensure a seamless, effective, and future-ready learning ecosystem.

Meeting Your Unique Needs

Fortify Your District's Cybersecurity and Maximize Efficiency with Google Workspace for Education Plus

As a Technology Director, you’re tasked with not only safeguarding your district against evolving cybersecurity threats but also optimizing resources and streamlining operations. Google Workspace for Education Plus offers a powerful, integrated solution that addresses both critical needs.

Quantifiable Security Enhancements

Google Workspace for Education Plus provides the advanced security features essential for protecting your district’s digital environment:

Enhanced Visibility and Control with the Security Center: Gain comprehensive insights into your security posture, proactively identify potential risks, and streamline incident response.
Granular Access Control with Context-Aware Access: Implement intelligent access policies to ensure sensitive data is only accessible to trusted users and devices.
Proactive Data Protection with Advanced Data Loss Prevention (DLP): Define and enforce automated policies to prevent the inappropriate sharing of sensitive student information, such as PII, mitigating the risk of costly data breaches and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Considerable Cost Savings for Your District

Significant Return on Investment: Organizations experienced a 191% return on investment over three years by adopting Education Plus.
Dramatic Reduction in Phishing: Achieve a 95% reduction in phishing incidents, minimizing disruptions and protecting sensitive data.
Substantial Time Savings on Phishing Management: Reclaim valuable IT resources by spending 98% less time addressing phishing attacks.
Increased Administrative Efficiency: Save an average of 300 hours annually on administrative tasks , allowing your team to focus on strategic initiatives.
Enhanced Collaboration and Cost Reduction: Streamline collaboration efforts to save an average of $368,000.

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Google Workspace for Education Plus is not just a suite of tools; it’s a strategic investment that strengthens your security posture, empowers your administrative teams, and ultimately contributes to a more efficient and secure learning environment

Empowering Transformative Learning Experiences with Google Workspace For Education Plus

As a Curriculum Director, your focus is on equipping educators with the resources they need to create dynamic and meaningful learning experiences that resonate with every student. Google Workspace for Education Plus offers a suite of powerful collaboration and personalization tools designed to support your curriculum goals and empower both teachers and students.

Fostering Collaboration and Streamlining Resource Sharing

Imagine a learning environment where collaboration is seamless and resource sharing is effortless. Google Workspace for Education Plus facilitates this through features like enhanced Google Meet and Shared Drives, enabling:

Effortless Teacher Collaboration: Empower educators to collaborate on district-wide projects, co-create curriculum materials, and share best practices in real-time, eliminating version control issues and fostering a connected professional learning community.
Seamless Resource Sharing: Provide a centralized platform for teachers to easily share and access curriculum resources, lesson plans, and engaging materials, saving time and promoting consistency across the district.

Driving Personalized and Engaging Learning

Google Workspace for Education Plus offers features that support your personalized learning initiatives and enhance student engagement:

Unleash Student Voice with Unlimited Originality Reports: Go beyond academic integrity. Empower students to develop their unique voice and critical thinking skills by providing unlimited opportunities to check their work and refine their ideas.
Integrate Engaging Tools with Classroom Add-ons: Extend the functionality of Google Classroom by seamlessly integrating a wide range of third-party applications and tools that bring lessons to life, cater to diverse learning styles, and enhance student interaction.

Creating a Dynamic and Student-Centered Environment

These features work together to cultivate a more dynamic and student-centered learning environment where:

Teachers are empowered to collaborate effectively and access a wealth of resources.
Students are engaged through interactive tools and opportunities for personalized learning.
Curriculum comes to life in meaningful and impactful ways.

By leveraging the collaborative and personalization capabilities of Google Workspace for Education Plus, you can unlock the potential for truly transformative learning experiences across your district, empowering both educators and students to thrive.

As a Google for Education Partner, our team of Google Certified Trainers and Google Certified Coaches are here to help you every step of the way. Learn more about our comprehensive Professional Learning for Google for Education here.

Supercharge Your Teaching
and Create Engaging Learning Experiences with Google
Workspace for Education

As a dedicated K-12 teacher or integration coach, you’re constantly seeking innovative ways to create exciting and meaningful learning experiences that empower student success. Google Workspace for Education Plus offers a suite of intuitive and powerful tools designed to enhance your teaching, personalize learning, and streamline your daily tasks.

Unlock Collaborative Opportunities and Streamline Your Workflow

Imagine a classroom and school environment where collaboration is seamless and your workflow is more efficient. Google Workspace for Education Plus facilitates this through features like:

Enhanced Google Meet: Connect with students, parents, and colleagues through secure and engaging video conferencing. Facilitate virtual field trips, bring in guest speakers, or provide individualized support with ease
Shared Drives: Collaborate effortlessly with colleagues on lesson plans, curriculum development, and school-wide projects, ensuring everyone has access to the latest resources and eliminating version control headaches.
Google Calendar: Simplify scheduling parent-teacher conferences, manage classroom events, and stay organized throughout the school year, freeing up valuable time for instruction.
Google Sites: Create engaging digital hubs for your classroom, share resources with students and parents, showcase student portfolios, and foster a dynamic online learning environment.
Cloud Search: Instantly access your lesson plans, student work, and relevant information across all your Google Workspace tools, acting like your personal teaching assistant to save you time and effort.
Gemini for Education* : Leverage the power of generative AI to brainstorm lesson ideas, create first drafts of materials, summarize content, and provide personalized feedback to students, freeing up valuable time for direct instruction and individual student support.
*Additional add on license required. Learn more here.

Personalize Learning and Foster Academic Integrity

Google Workspace for Education Plus provides tools that empower you to personalize learning and promote academic honesty:

Unlimited Originality Reports: Go beyond plagiarism detection. Help students develop their own voice and critical thinking skills by providing them with unlimited opportunities to check their work and learn how to properly cite sources.
Classroom Add-ons: Integrate a wide variety of engaging and interactive third-party tools directly within Google Classroom to bring your lessons to life, cater to diverse learning styles, and enhance student engagement.

Creating a Thriving and Secure Learning Environment

Google Workspace for Education Plus is designed to help you create a more impactful and secure learning environment where:

You can focus on teaching: By streamlining administrative tasks and providing easy access to resources.
Learning is personalized: Catering to individual student needs and fostering deeper understanding.
Collaboration is seamless: Connecting you with colleagues, students, and parents effectively.
The digital environment is safer: Protecting student data and promoting responsible online behavior.

Empower your teaching and create transformative learning experiences with the intuitive and powerful tools of Google Workspace for Education Plus.

Transform Your Higher Education Institution with Google Workspace
for Education

In today’s dynamic higher education landscape, fostering student success, enabling impactful research, and ensuring a secure digital environment are paramount. Google Workspace for Education Plus provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed to empower your institution across these critical areas.

Enhance Learning and Collaboration: Drive student engagement with collaborative tools like Google Meet for seamless virtual learning and office hours, Shared Drives for streamlined group projects and research, and Google Docs for real-time co-creation. Foster a connected learning community that transcends physical boundaries.

Empower Research and Innovation: Equip researchers with the scalable infrastructure of Google Cloud Platform for data analysis, modeling, and secure storage of large datasets. Facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration and accelerate the pace of discovery.

Strengthen Security and Simplify IT Management: Protect sensitive student and institutional data with advanced security features, including enhanced visibility and control through the Security Center. Streamline IT administration with centralized management and interoperability across devices.

Optimize Institutional Efficiency: Improve communication and workflows across departments with integrated tools like Google Calendar and Gmail. Reduce administrative overhead and allocate resources more effectively.

Future-Ready Your Institution: Leverage innovative technologies like AI-powered tools to personalize learning experiences, gain deeper insights from data, and prepare your students and faculty for the future of work.

Google Workspace for Education Plus offers a flexible and scalable platform to meet the unique needs of your higher education institution, fostering innovation, enhancing collaboration, and creating a secure and future-forward learning and research environment. Learn more about Five Star’s Higher Ed offerings here.

Optimize Your IT and Administration with Expert Google Workspace for Education Support

For IT administrators and district leaders, ensuring a secure, efficient, and well-managed Google Workspace for Education environment is paramount. We offer specialized services designed to optimize your setup, streamline administrative tasks, enhance security, and empower your team to focus on strategic initiatives.

Gain Actionable Insights with a Comprehensive Google Workspace for Education Assessment: Understand the effectiveness of your current Google Workspace for Education configuration. Our experts work closely with your team to conduct a thorough review of critical areas, including user provisioning and de-provisioning processes, core service settings (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Classroom), email routing and delivery, spam and malware protection configurations, mobile device management policies, data loss prevention rules, and security best practices implementation. You’ll receive a detailed report outlining our findings, identifying areas for improvement, and highlighting successful configurations. Following the assessment, we’ll conduct a collaborative post-service discussion to provide clear guidance on recommended actions and answer any questions your team may have.

Accelerate and Secure Your Google Admin Console Implementation: Streamline the initial setup or re-configuration of your Google Admin console with our expert guidance. We leverage K-12 best practices and tailor settings to your district’s unique needs and security requirements. Our comprehensive service includes an in-depth information-gathering meeting to understand your specific environment and goals, the creation of detailed documentation to serve as an ongoing reference for your settings and policies, and a thorough virtual hand-off meeting where we walk through all configurations to ensure your team possesses the knowledge and confidence to manage the environment effectively moving forward.

Strategize and Execute Your Cloud Migration: Explore the benefits of migrating from internal servers to the scalable and reliable Google Cloud Platform. Our Google Certified Cloud Professionals offer extensive experience in guiding educational institutions through this transition. We’ll conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current infrastructure, applications, and workloads, develop a tailored migration strategy, and provide expert assistance throughout the entire migration process, ensuring a smooth and secure transition with minimal disruption to your operations.

Learn more about Google Cloud offerings here.

Enhance Communication Flexibility and Privacy with Google Voice: Integrate Google Voice to provide a secure and flexible communication solution for teachers and administrators. Enable calling and texting with students and parents from personal devices while safeguarding personal phone numbers. Benefit from granular control over availability, customizable voicemail greetings, and automatic voicemail transcription, improving communication efficiency and protecting staff privacy.

Let our specialized expertise in Google Workspace for Education empower your IT and administrative teams to optimize your digital environment for security, efficiency, and impactful educational outcomes. We’re here to help you leverage the full potential of Google’s tools to support your district’s mission.

What truly sets Five-Star apart is their proactive approach. They don’t just wait for us to bring up challenges—they anticipate our needs, offer tailored solutions, and make themselves readily available. That level of attentiveness and care has made them a trusted partner in our work to enhance instructional and operational efficiency through Google Workspace.

Joe Heerdink

CTO, Evansville Vanderburgh School Corp

Learn more about the power and flexibility of Google Workspace for Education here!

Powering Possibilities with Google Cloud

Google Cloud offers a transformative suite of services designed to empower educational institutions to innovate, enhance learning, and optimize their IT infrastructure. From secure and scalable computing to advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence, Google Cloud provides the foundation for a future-ready educational environment.

Partner with Five Star Technology Solutions to navigate this powerful platform and tailor solutions to your unique needs.

K-12

Secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions are essential for today’s K-12 environments, enabling personalized learning, fostering collaboration, and ensuring data privacy. Explore how Google Cloud, supported by Five Star Technology Solutions’ expertise, can transform your district’s technology infrastructure and empower digital learning.

Secure and Compliant Infrastructure: Benefit from Google Cloud’s robust security measures, designed to meet stringent K-12 compliance standards like FERPA, ensuring the safety and privacy of sensitive student data.

Scalable Learning Platforms: Deploy and manage learning management systems (LMS) and other educational applications with ease, scaling resources up or down based on demand to accommodate growing student populations and evolving needs.

Cost-Effective Solutions: Optimize your IT budget with Google Cloud’s flexible, pay-as-you-go pricing model, eliminating the need for significant upfront investments in hardware and reducing ongoing maintenance costs.

Empowering Educators: Provide teachers with access to powerful tools and resources in the cloud, facilitating innovative teaching methods, personalized learning experiences, and seamless collaboration.

Higher Ed

For universities and colleges seeking to innovate in research, enhance campus infrastructure, optimize administrative processes, and drive student achievement, Google Cloud offers powerful and versatile solutions. Five Star can help you leverage these advanced capabilities.

Accelerating Research: Utilize high-performance computing (HPC) and advanced data analytics tools on Google Cloud to process large datasets, conduct complex simulations, and foster interdisciplinary research collaborations, accelerating the pace of discovery.

Modernizing Campus Infrastructure: Migrate legacy systems to Google Cloud for increased reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Leverage cloud-based storage, networking, and compute resources to optimize IT operations and reduce on-premises infrastructure management.

Enhancing the Student Experience: Implement personalized learning platforms, utilize AI-powered tools for student support and engagement, and create interactive digital learning environments that cater to diverse learning styles.

Optimizing Administrative Efficiency: Streamline administrative workflows, improve communication across departments, and leverage data analytics to gain insights into institutional performance and make data-driven decisions.

Explore Our Google Cloud for Education Solution Areas:

AI and Machine Learning in Education: Unlock the potential of Artificial Intelligence in your classrooms and administrative processes with Google Cloud. Five Star Technology Solutions can guide you in leveraging cutting-edge AI tools for personalized learning experiences, intelligent automation of tasks, and data-driven insights to improve student outcomes and institutional efficiency.

Data Analytics and Insights: Harness the power of your institution’s data with Google Cloud’s advanced analytics tools, including BigQuery and Looker Studio. Five Star Technology Solutions can help you build robust data platforms, generate meaningful reports, visualize key trends, and gain actionable insights to improve student success, optimize resource allocation, and enhance operational efficiency.

Secure and Scalable Infrastructure: Build a secure and scalable foundation for your digital learning environment with Google Cloud’s robust and compliant infrastructure. Five Star Technology Solutions specializes in architecting and implementing cloud solutions that meet the stringent security and compliance requirements of the education sector, including data encryption, identity and access management, and network security, ensuring the safety and accessibility of your critical data and applications.

Collaboration and Productivity (Beyond Workspace): Extend your collaborative capabilities beyond standard document sharing with Google Cloud’s powerful storage and infrastructure services, such as Cloud Storage and Compute Engine. Five Star Technology Solutions can help you design and implement solutions for managing large research datasets, facilitating complex project collaborations, and building custom learning platforms and applications tailored to your specific needs.

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