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EDUCATION

Manage Google Workspace for Education at scale

Automate repetitive student offboarding, manage My Drive and Shared Drives across your institution, and backup and archive student data, all in one platform.

the education problem

Google Workspace gets harder to manage as your institution grows

Each year students leave and new ones enrol, meaning more accounts, Drive content and data to manage. Automate & Protect helps education IT teams handle that growth and maintain control.

Extend Google Workspace for Education

What Google Workspace does

  • Manage users and access

    Admins can manage accounts and permissions, but large-scale leaver processes still require multiple manual steps.

  • Store and collaborate in Drive and Shared Drives

    Teams can collaborate easily, but visibility is hidden and control become harder as Drives, members and sharing accumulate.

  • Keep students and staff productive

    User data stays available while accounts are active and leavers continue to take up expensive licenses so data can be retained.

How Automate & Protect fills the gaps

  • Automate offboarding at scale

    Use repeatable workflows to revoke access, transfer data and reclaim licenses.

  • Manage Drive at scale

    Find unmanaged Shared Drives, risky access and public links, then take action across your environment.

  • Protect and retain data

    Back up active data and retain former user data without keeping unnecessary accounts active.

AUTOMATED OFFBOARDING

Take the pressure out of student and staff offboarding

End of term can mean hundreds or thousands of accounts changing at once. Automate & Protect helps IT teams run repeatable offboarding workflows across students and staff, without working through every account manually.

Student leaves

Revoke access

Transfer data

Archive content

Reclaim license

“They streamline our processes, making sure that data is more effective and efficient, which is especially important…”
BRIT School
DRIVE MANAGEMENT

Bring years of Google Drive growth back under control

Every academic year adds more users, files, Shared Drives and collaborators. Over time, it becomes increasingly difficult to know what exists, who has access and which Shared Drives are still actively managed.

  • Identify unmanaged Shared Drives
  • Review risky or unnecessary access
  • Make changes across large Drive estates more efficiently
backup & archive data

Protect the data your institution needs to keep

Backup
Protect active Google Workspace data and recover content when it is accidentally deleted or lost.

Archive
Retain former student and staff data for longer-term access without keeping unnecessary accounts active.

Customer-controlled storage
Keep Backup and Archive data in your own cloud storage environment.

Education pricing

Get preferential education pricing for Automate & Protect, making it more affordable to manage and protect Google Workspace across large numbers of students and staff.
EDUCATION FOR GOOGLE WORKSPACE

FAQs

Why do we need Automate & Protect if we already use Google Workspace for Education?
Google Workspace gives your institution the core tools to manage users, collaborate and store data. Automate & Protect extends that environment with offboarding workflows, Drive Management, Backup and Archive, helping IT teams manage large user populations and growing data with less manual administration.
Can Automate & Protect handle large numbers of students leaving at the same time?
Yes. Automate & Protect helps IT teams standardize and automate Google Workspace offboarding, making it easier to manage large groups of students or staff leaving at the end of a term or academic year. Workflows can carry out multiple offboarding actions consistently, including removing access, managing Groups and transferring user data.
What happens to user data when a student or staff member leaves?
Automate & Protect gives you the option to transfer, retain or remove data. Archive can retain former user data for longer-term access, while Backup protects active Google Workspace data and supports recovery when content is deleted or lost.
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