Today we launched a new education category of over 20 new apps from 19 vendors, available in the Google Apps Marketplace. Many of these apps are free or have free trials and include learning management systems, gradebooks, learning aids, student tools and more. You can add these integrated applications to your Google Apps subscription with just a few clicks. Watch this video for more information.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Education

Languages included:
US English

How to access what's new:
- Go to http://www.google.com/appsmarketplace/edu
- Choose an app from various apps, including Haiku (LMS), BrainPop (EDU Content), and DreamBox (EDU games).
- Click the blue ‘Add it now’ button to add the app for your users.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-apps-just-got-smarter.html

If you’ve #gonegoogle, and tried the #appsmarketplace, let others know what you recommend - via Twitter, Google Buzz or submit your suggestions for additional apps to us.

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Google Apps administrators can now enable DKIM signing for all outgoing messages which helps validate outbound mail as being from that domain.

To add a digital signature to outgoing mail, you generate a domain key that Google Apps uses to create encrypted mail headers that are unique to your domain. You add the public key to the Domain Name System (DNS) records for your domain. Recipients can then verify the source of a mail message by retrieving your public key and using it to decrypt the header.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
US English Only (Next Generation Control Panel)

How to access what's new:
There are three major steps required to add the DKIM signature to all outgoing mail:
- Generate the domain key for your domain
- Add the public domain key to the DNS records for your domain
- Turn on authentication in the ‘Advanced Tools’ section of the administrator control panel

Note: If you purchased your domain from one of our registration partners while signing up for Google Apps, the first two steps are not necessary. Google will automatically generate the domain key and add the necessary DNS record when you turn on authentication.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/01/spam-takes-another-hit-email.html
Help Center: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=174124

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You can now watch videos that you’ve uploaded to your document list directly in your browser. The videos need to be in a supported format.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Docs

How to access what's new:
In your documents list, click on a video file that you’ve uploaded and the the video opens in a new page that includes a video player. You will need to have Flash installed for the video player to work.

For more information:
http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2011/01/this-week-in-docs-video-player-in.html
Help Center: http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1047043

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Google Apps administrators can now create policies specifying who their users can communicate with over email, and administrators can tailor these policies for different groups of users.

For example, school faculty and staff can have unrestricted email access while students have the freedom to send and receive emails within the school community but are protected from unwanted email interactions with outsiders.

Editions included:
Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
US English Only (Next Generation Control Panel)

How to access what's new:
In the administrator control panel, select ‘Advanced tools’ and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the new option ‘Restrict email delivery’. To restrict email to just within the domain, administrators will still need to add the domain name here.

For more information:
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/01/set-limits-on-email-use-within-your.html
Help Center: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177482

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The following new feature is now available in Google Calendar for all Google Apps domains:

Event timezones - You can now specify the time zone for a given event. You can even set up events which start in one time zone and end in another.

Previously this feature was only available to domains with ‘pre-release features’ enabled in the Administrator Control Panel.

Editions included:
Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education

Languages included:
All languages supported by Google Calendar

How to access what's new:
Event timezones: Click the “Time zone” link to the right of the date and time fields on the event page. Events will appear on your calendar according to the current time zone you’re in, and when you change to your destination time zone they’ll be in the right place.

For more information:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/event-time-zones-in-google-calendar.html

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