[scarface74]

That hasn't appeared to work. Students who are forced to use Chromebooks don't beg their parents to get them one for home. The ones who do care about laptops ask for PC's or to a much lesser extent Macs.

That also never really worked when Apple was much bigger in pre-college education.

Edit: Chromebooks in education are like Enterprise software. The end user never chooses to use it. The vendor is not incentivized to make a product that end user will like, only the corporate buyer.

How many teachers and administrators who do have a choice are using Chromebooks willingly?

[Spooky23]

Many. I’m on a K-8 school board and the #1 technology ask from the teachers is Chromebooks.

They like iPads up to around grade 2-3. After that, the keyboard makes the kids more productive.

Windows requires too much IT overhead and Mac is too difficult to do business with and expensive.

The real magic of Chrome is the management suite. It’s dirt cheap for .edu and works fantastic. Chrome devices on a cart are reconfigured by the time the cart is rolled into a different classroom.

It’s way too expensive for commercial customers though.

[scarface74]

I agree. I'm not saying that Chromebooks aren't a good fit for education. I'm saying that using Chromebooks in schools aren't going to necessarily endear them to students to the point where the next generation is going to prefer either Chromebooks or GSuite when they have a choice at home or when they go to college or start working.

Teachers want Chromebook's for their students. When they have choice, they will use their own laptops for themselves.

Just like no one ever said they want to use Version One for their own personal projects. They would choose something like BaseCamp Personal or Trello.

[soared]

G is making progress though - automation / building of tools is 100x better on google sheets than in excel.

I can make a g form, output to a g sheet, automatically email if an entry contains certain text, etc. All that takes ~20 minutes, 1 add on, and 0 lines of code. Excel simply cannot compete with that.

Edit - I still use excel all the time for heavy lifting though. They fill different use cases for me.

[scarface74]

My initial post may have sounded more negative than I intended regarding the quality of Google Sheets. I have an Office365 subscription and Numbers is free and either could do the simple things I use a spreadsheet for, I still use Sheets.

[jsmith99]

Have you tried Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Flow? They are the equivalent of your G Forms work flow

[soared]

Nope, that looks awesome though thank you! My current work doesn't let us use g products