St. Alphonsus uses Google Suite for Education in grades 3rd–8th. G Suite for Education is a set of education productivity tools from Google including Drive, Docs, Classroom. At SAS, students will use their G Suite accounts to complete assignments, communicate with their teachers, sign into their Chromebooks, and learn 21st century digital citizenship skills.

What will my child have access to?

• Students will be able to use their account to log into the Chromebook
  • A Chromebook is a laptop that runs Google Chrome OS. These machines are designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and documents living in the cloud.
• Applications such as Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
  • These apps are web-based services that enable the user to create, edit, share, collaborate, draw, export, and embed content on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms.
• Students will join Google Classroom. Teachers set up a classroom on their Google account and students can view assignments and submit work.
• Other educational apps and websites that have been pre-approved by the school technology coordinator and teachers. These include Brainpop and iXL learning apps, as well as learning resources from our textbook companies.
• Student computer usage is monitored using Goguardian.
  • This allows the teachers, admin, and the technology coordinator to make sure that chrome books are being used appropriately.

What apps have been disabled by the Google Admin?

• Students will NOT have access to email, chatting (exception: collaboration within a single classroom that has been enabled by the teacher), Gemini or other AI platforms/capabilities, YouTube, Google Hangouts, Google meetings, Blogger, web store, and more.
• Students will NOT be able to collaborate with users outside of the St. Alphonsus domain.