Education Plus Gives Teachers and Students Peace of Mind

In 2022, educators are facing big challenges. They’re not only responsible for closing the learning loss gap and advancing education, but they’re also left dealing with advanced data security threats that are impacting both educators and students.

The transition to a partial or total hybrid learning environment for many schools has elevated the need for a security solution.

Educators Are Facing Big Security Challenges

Closing the learning loss gap and advancing education, while facing advanced data security threats is highly important. Comprehensive, engaging, and flexible education tools are needed now more than ever to support teaching and learning to face big challenges like:

• 29% increase - Cyberattacks have increased against education organisations around the world this year. 1

• 75 days - Primary and secondary students missed an average of 75 days of school due to closures from Jan ’20–May ’21. 2

• 34% of schools - Over a third of schools worldwide rely on hybrid learning in 2021. ³

• £3.1 million - Data breaches cost an average total of £3.1 million across the education industry in 2021. 4

If you’re looking for a more secure option for you and your students, Education Plus is the ultimate Google Workspace for Education edition. With Education Plus, you receive all the enhanced security features and premium teaching and learning tools available with Education Standard and the Teaching and Learning Upgrade — plus more!

Be Proactive Against Security Threats

Keep your classroom safe with advanced security tools that give you more insights, visibility, and control into who’s accessing what:

• Get proactive security tools that help you prevent, detect, and remediate threats.

• Gain holistic controls that provide centralised access and security management.

• Explore analytics and insights that provide more visibility into your institution.

Take Teaching and Learning to a New Level

Gain enhanced capabilities to better connect, engage, facilitate, and inspire your school community with flexible education tools:

Involve your whole school community by holding larger meetings and livestreams.

Increase engagement with premium Google Meet features like breakout rooms and Q&As.

Enrich the classroom experience with tools that make learning more personal* and integrate seamlessly within Classroom.

Guide deeper learning with unlimited originality reports that scan for plagiarism and assisted writing and analysis in Docs and Sheets*.

Case Study: Enhancing Remote Learning With Workspace for Education Plus

When Academies Enterprises Trust wanted to bring dozens of schools from all over together under one umbrella, they had one goal in mind: improve the performance of each school.

The organisation knew that technology would play a large role in this, so they began adopting Google products more than 10 years ago. Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals was one of the first products the trust began using, followed by Google Classroom in 2014.

When the global pandemic hit, the trust saw an increased need for security. Education Plus tools allowed for better IT management and gave educators and students the ability to focus on education instead of digital safety. “From my point of view, a big part of what makes all of this possible is the security baked into Google products. In the past, much of our network analysis had to be done manually, using spreadsheets.” Karl Bernard - IT Business Partner.

1Check Point Research, July 2021.
2OECD, 16 September 2021.
3COVID-19 Global Education Recovery Tracker, 2021.
4Cost of a Data Breach Report, July 2021.