We often get the question within the Tech department and our Tech Advocates, especially when using Chromebooks-is the internet down or is Google having some disruption issues? You may experience times when Google Drive will not load properly, or you may get an internal error message pop-up on the screen which usually would load your page without issues. To check and see if there are Google-Apps service-related issues, you can visit the following website: 
www.google.com/appstatus and find out if there are any reported Google disruptions or outages-and yes, they do happen. Even Google is not perfect-shocking, we know! 
This website lists all the Google Apps and the colors orange or pink will indicate whether there are disruptions with the App. Orange means a disruption (not all accounts are affected-pink means outage and all are affected). This can happen for a variety of reasons, and only the powers at Google can fix! If students are having issues logging into the Google accounts, it may be an Internet issue which technology can help to fix. The good news is Google is usually very good at fixing these in a timely fashion, so try not to be too discouraged! Just keep trying to load the page if you can, and you should be on your way to Google working "business as usual" once again! 
~Post by Angela Wojtecki 

On September 30, 2014 Google announced a revamped Google Apps For Education initiative that is sure to get both teachers and students excited. The biggest take away from this is that Google Apps users will have unlimited Drive storage. In the past users were allocated up to 30 gigabytes of storage in their Google Drive. That restriction has been completely removed, and along with that users can now upload individual files that by themselves take up 5 terabytes of space.

These features should be available to all Nordonia users within the coming weeks. In the meantime, check out the press release from Google explaining all of the details.