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CDW Google Workspace for Education pros and cons

Vendor: CDW
4.8 out of 5
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CDW Google Workspace for Education Pros review quotes

Tiffany Wilson - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at KEWASKUM SCHOOL DISTRICT
May 2, 2023
The training is excellent; we use it a lot and find it to be the most valuable feature.
JR Renna - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator of Educational Technology at PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
May 8, 2023
It was very helpful to be able to supplement our own IT support with Amplified's IT support. Rather than us burning 45 minutes troubleshooting an issue, we could just loop them in on it and they would perform it for us and help us deliver a quick solution.
Katie Harmon - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Educational Technology at Westhill Central School District
May 8, 2023
Among the most valuable features is the simple fact that the Gopher series works from a spreadsheet... It makes it so easy to do massive amounts of updating.
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Denise DeJuliannie - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at Eden Valley-Watkins
May 16, 2023
Amplified has something called the North American Collaborative Group, which I paid to be in. They go over every new Google update in great detail multiple times over the month, and there are recorded webinars with slide decks that you can watch at your leisure. That is amazing because there are things that administrators may need to adjust. It also helps me educate my end users and show them features that they weren't aware of.
Justin Barnhart - PeerSpot reviewer
District Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
May 9, 2023
The most valuable aspect has been the Little SIS product. It helps us a lot with our Google Classrooms and issues that we have with them, and it gives us a lot more insight into Google Classrooms use.
AF
Network Specialist at a non-tech company
Apr 26, 2023
The most valuable element of the product is that the people we work with at CDW are excellent; they're very reliable and knowledgeable.
MP
TOA - Technology at Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District
May 2, 2023
We use the solution's tools, such as Gopher for Users, which was very helpful when we got 1,000 Chromebooks. Our leading IT team member said that with this tool, we can get tasks done in hours, which would have taken weeks previously.
SS
System Specialist / Tech 3 at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Apr 28, 2023
Amplified's training is top-notch. They offer certifications and run admin boot camps, which are fantastic for getting my team up to date. Their training team does an excellent job of getting us educated. Though I've already taken the class, I go back periodically because Google constantly changes features.
RK
Administrator of Educational Technology at Orange Unified School District
Apr 3, 2025
The reliability of the service in acquiring licenses quickly and getting replacements for hardware is invaluable.
LG
Director of Technology at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 11, 2023
The Gopher suite is the most valuable feature. Instead of modifying things one at a time in the Admin console, the fact that I can pull them into a spreadsheet and do calculations and lookups and use that spreadsheet to mass update everything saves me tons of time.
 

CDW Google Workspace for Education Cons review quotes

Tiffany Wilson - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at KEWASKUM SCHOOL DISTRICT
May 2, 2023
It would be good to offer more focused teaching and learning updates accessible to teaching staff.
JR Renna - PeerSpot reviewer
Coordinator of Educational Technology at PARKLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT
May 8, 2023
Immediately after the CDW acquisition, some of our expectations were a little disrupted. For example, when you purchased Chromebooks, you would get service credit that you could turn into hours. Because we purchased the Chromebooks from CDW, and now CDW also owns the company where we would redeem those credits, I don't quite understand that dynamic, but that was impacted. In the last couple of weeks or months, it seems that they're trying to find paths to being flexible with those service credits and stack. That is one area that they may be slowly catching up on, after the acquisition.
Katie Harmon - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Educational Technology at Westhill Central School District
May 8, 2023
This is really minor, but there are a few tools, add-ons for spreadsheets, put out by a different company, that Amplified doesn't have... If Amplified had something like Sheet Spider, it would be so much better.
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Denise DeJuliannie - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Director at Eden Valley-Watkins
May 16, 2023
Little SIS should be built into Google Workspace for Education. It shouldn't be a third-party service that we need to buy. When we pay for the Education Plus platform, the admin should be able to completely control Google Classroom. Google's standard learning management system doesn't give admins much visibility and control aside from seeing who's a member and what classes are happening.
Justin Barnhart - PeerSpot reviewer
District Systems Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
May 9, 2023
In the Little SIS interface, when when I'm doing a student search and trying to see where they're rostered, for example, it would be nice to have a little more insight into what the students are actually doing. It would be good to see how much time they spend in their Google Classrooms...
AF
Network Specialist at a non-tech company
Apr 26, 2023
CDW could be better at marketing precisely what they and their product can do. There are sometimes cases where we didn't know the company had a specific capability.
MP
TOA - Technology at Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District
May 2, 2023
The support is good, and we usually get a response within 24 hours, but the response times could be more efficient.
SS
System Specialist / Tech 3 at a educational organization with 11-50 employees
Apr 28, 2023
I wish Amplified would develop a few more tools. There are a few functions that I want to do through an interface like Gopher. For example, I want a tool that lets me quickly browse my organization's publicly available Google documents.
RK
Administrator of Educational Technology at Orange Unified School District
Apr 3, 2025
On the CDW-G side, they could improve by providing a more comprehensive and clear packaging system.
LG
Director of Technology at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
May 11, 2023
I believe they've really worked on this, but there could be a deeper integration of their tools within the Google Workspace platform... it would be nice to see more integration from their tools directly with Google Workspace without a 'middleman' or a 'hop, skip, and a jump' process.

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