Whether you have an iPhone or an iPad, the adding of a Google account is essentially the same... However, there are two different ways you need to consider adding an account depending on how you're going to use it:Using Gmail to sync with iOS servicesIf you are using your own device and want to sync...

Unfortunately, the design of Android's ecosystem means that different Android devices can have totally different methods of doing the same thing. On a Samsung device, however, you can have a pretty standard method of adding accounts:From your Samsung Home screen, navigate: Apps  > Setti...

As with macOS, this tutorial assumes you're adding your Google account for the purposes of syncing with Microsoft's apps (e.g. Mail, Calendar etc.) - if you're using the Chrome web browser and want to be able to make better use of the security separation, we'll add another article specifically for t...

Asset Management is an absolute necessity from an accounting perspective as well as just being good practice. There are a number of ways to achieve this, be it on a spreadsheet, a dedicated asset management platform or any other way, shape or form.In order to do this effectively, you need to know ex...

So you're a teacher and you're looking for resources that you can show your class for media studies, literacy or as a reward on the last day of term. In days gone by, you would simply stop at your local Civic Video the night before and pick up your VHS, Betamax or DVD video that you had booked ...

The following is a list of education-oriented apps gleaned from the best apps we have in our schools. If you have an app that you think would benefit schools in New Zealand, please let us know.Prices quoted were accurate at the time of preparing this article. If you notice that the amounts have chan...

If you are using OpenWRT, you may need a little more explanation than "check your modem's guide" when it comes to setting up your connection with Entity.Depending on where you are in the country, you may be able to simply plug your ONT directly into your OpenWrt device's WAN port and everything work...

Most Android devices will be very similar in getting set up, however, the general gist is as follows:From the welcome screen, click GET STARTEDIf you haven’t already inserted a SIM card, you’ll get prompted to install one (or you can tap on SKIP)On the “Setup your [phone] screen”, click on “Setup as...

As an “agent” for your organisation, you have visibility over and can interact with all the help desk tickets in your domain.An agent user has more helpdesk access and permissions than a regular user account. Please contact us to grant those permissions to you.To log in as an agent, visit https://su...

There are a number of reasons why you may want to forward all or only certain types of messages as they arrive in your inbox to another email address. These reasons may include anything from archival to a change of domain. If you own the source Google Workspace environment, this is more easily achie...

Following Google's own instructions (available here) should get you everything you need to reset your chrome device to its best as-new state as it can get.The purposes behind this are far-ranging, including selling your device to someone else or simply freeing up storage by getting rid of a whole bu...

"Why would I need a softphone?", you may ask. "What is a softphone anyways?"Those are perfectly valid questions.In short, a softphone is an app which allows you to make and receive phone calls from your mobile phone or computer without the person you're calling finding out your personal mobile numbe...

Since 1 September 2021, there are a number of procedural changes that have taken place in terms of age restrictions on your Google Workspace for Education account, which will have caused all users in your organisation to default to under 18.The exception to this is where a user has been created in a...

At Entity, we take the online safety of your students very seriously, especially in a day and age where so much is going on in the digital environments that it’s hard for people to keep up with the ways in which our children are exposed.Schools, by their very nature, are now having to make some of t...

There are a number of ways that people can get information from your organisation in order to launch a phishing attack against you, or to impersonate you whilst phishing someone else.The simplest way of getting this information is to do a search on a search engine like this one. A threat actor can m...

There's an inferred understanding that you need to include your email address on your website so that you can easily be contacted by customers, service providers or other visitors to your website.Just like having a front door and windows on your home is necessary, each entry point becomes a security...

To use Entity Communications Mobile data you will need to set your SIM to use the correct Access Point Name (APN). Please see the pages for iPhone/iPad and Android devices or you can setup your device using the following settings: APN Name: EntityAPN: apn.radiostar.net.nzProxy:  [not set]Port: [not ...

You can view or edit your APN settings in one of the following locations:Settings > Cellular > Cellular Data Options > Cellular NetworkSettings > Mobile Data > Mobile Data Options > Mobile Data NetworkSettings > Mobile > Mobile Data Network To change your settings, tap each f...

You can view or edit your APN settings by following the steps below. If, given the differences in various Android versions, your device doesn't follow the same settings, please feel free to contact us.From the home screen, tap the Menu button > Tap Settings > Tap Mobile networks >...

The purpose of this article is to reduce the frustration of finding configuration settings in Google Workspace's Admin Console.FunctionLinkApply default domain on Chromebook login windows (requires an active Chrome device management license).Google Admin ConsoleAllow a user to enrol Chromebooks into...