Chromebooks for Education

Chromebooks are vastly becoming the global number 1 choice for education. Now more than 40,000,000 students and teachers are using Chromebooks as their teaching and learning device.

  • Work online or offline
  • Chromebooks are super affordable, like a tablet, and have a keyboard for much needed keyboard skills
  • Google Workspace is intertwined with Chromebooks meaning that you have an office suite, meeting software, class assignment tools, security and much much more all in one place
  • Battery life is 8 – 12 hours minimum on all Chromebooks, so battery life is never an issue
  • Duotone supply and support Chromebooks from all main brands including Lenovo, Acer, Dell, Asus and HP

Contact us to get a demo unit for a 2-week trial.

Google Workspace for Education

Google unlocks the potential of every student and teacher alike through the intuitive, highly-accessible, and near-unlimited functionality available throughout their education ecosystem.

24/7 IT admin support

Google support is always on hand with Chrome OS troubleshooting assistance at no extra cost.

G Suite for Education is designed to give educators and students everything they need to succeed. It is a free suite of communication and collaboration tools including Gmail, Classroom, Docs, Drive, and more, designed to make education as productive and as successful as possible.

G Suite Enterprise for Education takes it one step further. Upgrade your digital environment with advanced security controls and enhanced collaboration tool to elevate teaching and learning.

GOOGLE CAST

Share content from one device to a screen or other devices easily with Google Cast.

The Google Cast SDK enables you to extend your Android, iOS, or Chrome app to direct its streaming video and audio to a TV or sound system. Your app becomes the remote control to play, pause, seek, rewind, stop, and otherwise control the media. Google Cast is designed for TV, movies, music, and more.

Google Cast for Education is a free Chrome app that allows students and teachers to share their screens wirelessly from anywhere in the classroom, no new hardware required.

Another great Google Solutions

Try Android app here

Try Apple app here

Try instructions for how to cast from your Google Chrome Browser here

Google Workspace for Business

Being cloud-based Google Solutions, Google Workspace offers exceptional agility coupled with ease of deployment and use across your customers’ digital estates, while simultaneously unifying the way their staff work and interact, especially when working remotely.

Google Workspace seamlessly integrates mail, chat, video, and content collaboration putting teamwork at the heart of everything your customers need and do, allowing their time to be focused on productivity.

Making your customers’ workspace a Google Workspace is the surest way of providing a truly transformative workplace experience.

Google Meet Hardware

Made to be affordable and headache-free Google Solutions, Google Meet Hardware brings the same reliable, easy-to-join video meeting experience of Meet to the conference room. In just minutes, you can set up Meet hardware and connect with your team, whether they’re on another floor or in another country.

The Google Meet Hardware solution comprises of a one-touch video conferencing system that’s easy to install right out of the box, and an annual software management license.

When you order Google Solutions, Google Meet Hardware, for each device you order, you also purchase a software license for that device. Purchasing the device and the license both take place during the same order process.

Duotone Limited is the one-stop-shop for Education Chromebooks in Ireland. We supply Chromebooks nationwide to Teachers, Parents and Students. We also do not charge for delivery for education orders.

Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite, is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It is an integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps powered by Google AI; including Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.

Google Forms is a web-based app used to create forms for data collection purposes. Google Forms is an excellent free way to gather data. Create polls, surveys, quizzes, and event registration sheets using Google Forms.

Yes and no, the standard G Suite for Education plan is completely free. It includes email accounts for your school, the full product suite, unlimited document storage, and video conferencing. It’s an amazing deal. The Enterprise version is a low cost paid license per user. Enterprise includes extra features such as Automatic Role Call, Google Meet Breakout Rooms and Advanced Security settings.

Google Assignments is a tool developed to enhance the learning and teaching experience. Save time and get students to turn their work in via Assignments.

Chromebooks are high functioning low-demand devices. This means that they can last 8 years before needing to be replaced. This is generally based on the devices Auto Update Expiration (AUE) date. To find out when your Chromebook updates will expire, visit https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366

Absolutely, Chromebooks are a fantastic alternative to an iPad. They have a better battery life. All school book publishers have android apps to allow their books to be read on a Chromebook.

Yes, as of 2020, all new Chromebooks will work offline. Chromebooks can be setup to have files synced to the cloud so they can work offline or online. Every time a student connects to an internet connection, their work will be backed up to Google Cloud. Apps such as Book Apps, Google Docs etc will work offline as well as online. Yet another one of Google Solutions

Yes, all new Chromebooks with chips created after 2013 have Google Play Store allowing access to hundreds of millions of apps.

Yes, you can get the Microsoft Office apps on you device. Microsoft Office is a paid for service, and with Chromebooks, you have access to G-Suite for free which works better than Microsoft Office.

Yes, you can view, edit and share pdf files on your Chromebook. If you need something that an app can do, then you can count on that app already being available on Google Play!

The Chrome Education licenses is perpetual and lasts the life time of the device it is provisioned on.

The licence does not expire / need to be renewed.

The licenses cannot be transferred to other devices. The only exception of this is for same-model replacements, and must still comply with the Chrome Service License Agreement, more information on this can be found here https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3523633?hl=en&ref_topic=6274426

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