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Google Beefs Up Online Storage for Apps for Education

• By David Nagel
• 06/24/11

Google is increasing the amount of storage it provides to institutions that use its free Apps for Education platform.

Google Apps for Education is the widely deployed, free, hosted application suite that includes communications tools like as Gmail, voice and voice chat, Google Calendar, and instant messaging; collaboration apps, such as Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Groups; and various administration features and APIs for integration with existing systems. According to a Google spokesperson, there are "12 million students, faculty and staff actively using Google Apps for Education" at present.

According to a blog post today, e-mail storage space for Apps for Education users is being increased from 7 GB to 25 GB for each mailbox. Mailboxes for current users will be expanded automatically "over the course of the next few weeks."

Google also highlighted 25 recent institutional additions to its hosted service, including eight school districts and 17 colleges, universities, and business schools.

New K-12 school districts using Google Apps include:

• Anaheim City School District;
• Ann Arbor Public Schools;
• Fall River Public Schools;
• Nebo School District;
• New Haven Unified School District;
• Oshkosh Area School District;
• Queen Anne’s County Public Schools; and
• Spring Independent School District.

New post-secondary organizations using Google Apps include:

• Amarillo College;
• Boston University;
• Buffalo State College;
• Chaminade University;
• College of Lake County;
• College of New Jersey;
• College of the Holy Cross;
• Corning Community College;
• Harvey Mudd College;
• HEC Paris;
• IE Business School;
• New York University Leonard M. Stern School of Business;
• University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Center Administration;
• University of Maryland at Baltimore;
• University of Northern Iowa;
• University of Salzburg; and
• University of Richmond.

Additional details about Google Apps for Education can be found on the signup page.