Customer Case Study
Inspire Education Group
Google Sites Intranet
“Steegle News has taken our Google Workspace student portal to the next level, making news dissemination efficient, simple, and visually compelling.” – Tony Warner
Revitalizing Student College Communication with Steegle Tools
Inspire Education Group , comprising Peterborough College and Stamford college, is an educational institution catering to over 10,000 students with a dedicated staff of 1,200 members. To cultivate a vibrant and collaborative learning space, IEG employs Google Workspace for Education. They developed a student intranet portal using Google Sites, but found that it was missing essential news and announcement functionalities.
Challenges
IEG sought to accomplish several goals:
Minimise email overload
Keep students well-informed
Reduce time spent on information retrieval
Enhance operational efficiency
Boost visibility of leadership
They needed to achieve these without the inherent news and announcement features in Google Sites.
Key Facts - Client Success Stories
Location: UK-based, incorporating Peterborough College and Stamford College.
Industry: Education, leveraging a digital workplace to foster internal communication and employee engagement.
Challenges: Addressing the need for an outdated intranet replacement to improve knowledge management and reduce email overload.
Solution: Adoption of Steegle.One News within a Google Sites intranet, enhancing the content management system (CMS) for an education intranet.
Outcome: A modern intranet transformation, achieving an efficient digital experience (DX) with enhanced collaboration through an updated employee directory, file library, and news system.
Conclusion: Inspire Education Group’s customizable intranet for over 10,000 students exemplifies a cloud-based intranet success story, highlighting a digital workplace platform that supports internal communication and employee engagement within an education intranet setting.
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Outcome
Steegle tools proved to be a pivotal asset for Inspire Education Group. It effectively streamlined their communication process with students, integrated with Google Workspace, and ensured that students were well-informed and kept up to date with the latest news and communications. Moreover, the tools were not only easy to implement but also met IEG’s needs for aesthetic appeal and data security.
Additionally, Tony commended the ease of engagement with Steegle and was particularly impressed with the simplicity of implementing the News tool. He stated, “Because it integrates with our existing Google Workspace, we managed to install it within an hour.
“Steegle News is impressive and significantly enhances our internal Google Workspace student portal. The tool allows news administrators to effortlessly add stories and images without the complexities of creating web pages from scratch.”
Tony Warner
Digital Learning Technologist,
Inspire Education Group
Google Sites student portal with no built-in news or announcements engine
Email overload — poor student awareness of key updates
Manual page creation for news — slow and requiring technical skill
10,000+ students and 1,200 staff across two colleges
Before Steegle.One
Steegle News installed within an hour — within existing Google Workspace
Dynamic news feeds, story and image publishing without technical skills
Tony Warner: 'impressive — significantly enhances our student portal'
Email overload reduced, student engagement and leadership visibility improved
After Steegle.One
Frequently Asked Questions
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Google Sites is a capable platform, but it doesn't come with a built-in news and announcements engine. Inspire Education Group — comprising Peterborough College and Stamford College with over 10,000 students — built a student portal on Google Sites and quickly discovered the gap. Keeping students informed meant either creating pages manually or resorting to email, which added to overload rather than reducing it.
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The goals were concrete: reduce email overload, keep students consistently informed, cut the time staff spent on information retrieval, boost visibility of leadership communications, and improve overall operational efficiency. Steegle News addressed all of them without requiring a platform change.
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Tony Warner, Digital Learning Technologist at Inspire Education Group, described the implementation as something they managed within an hour. It's a genuine reflection of how Steegle News integrates with an existing Google Workspace environment. There's no new platform to configure, no data migration, no retraining. It plugs into what's already there and starts working.
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Tony's description captures it well — news administrators can effortlessly add stories and images without the complexities of creating web pages from scratch. This is significant in further education, where the people responsible for communications are often subject specialists or administrators, not developers.
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Everything stays inside Inspire Education Group's own Google Workspace. No external platform holds student or staff data, and the institution's own Google security and permissions framework applies throughout. For a college with GDPR obligations covering thousands of students, that data sovereignty matters.
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Yes. Steegle.One encompasses a full suite — news, staff directory, file libraries, org charts — and if a college needs something further, such as a ticketing system for student services or an application built in AppSheet, the team can develop that inside Google Workspace.
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Students and staff searching for information need fast, accurate results. AI tools like Gemini can deliver that — but only when the content they're searching is well-organised and up to date. Steegle News ensures announcements are current and categorised, while Steegle.One provides a clean content structure for AI-assisted search.
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