Troubleshooting Google Chromebook Policies

Using Google Apps to manage policies Chromebook Policies?  Want to know what settings are applied to a device (or user) and when they were last updated?  Then I have found your new best friend, chrome://policy/, just load it up and take a look at what policies are getting applied.

chome://policy

The key pieces of information that I used were the "Last fetched" and "Applies to".

Another handy item listed there is the "Reload policies" button.  It comes in real handy for testing how changes affect the operation of the system.

Now I just have to go check out what this looks like on a Windows system running Chrome.

Google Play for Education has arrived!

Google Play for Education!

It has been a good two weeks for tablets in the education market.  First Apple announces the new managed distribution model for app deployment on iPads (here's my post about that) and now this announcement from Google.

Google Play for Education is a selection of apps, videos, and books all selected by teachers and grouped by age, course, and even common core standard.  This will be a great boon for educators all over.  Having an app store were at least some semblance of oversight has been given and it's not like the wild west where anything goes.

Google has even realized that schools aren't like individuals and with access to credit cards and that the majority of our purchases have to be made with POs.  Now we've got access to curated content and the ability to actually pay for it.

I can't wait to get a chance to actually get my hands on this and try it out.