- Google Accounts are students' entry in to the world of Google Tools
- Students join before arriving and must have a Google account when they arrive in July.
- Gmail is often the first tool they use.
IF they use Gmail, the format we require is to try the options below 1 to 4 until successful.
- firstname dot lastname
- firstname dot initial dot lastname
- lastname dot firstname
- firstname dot lastname year
All students so far have been able to obtain an account following these rules.
- Introduction to Gmail and Google Tools is given in the Summer Bootcamp orientation.
- Student Experience with Gmail
- easy to use
- no software to load
- good spam filtering
- easy message searching
- easy mail organization
- send mail options (can send mail so that it looks like it came from another acct)
- like the space (7G)
- have multiple accounts forwarding into this one
- like the chat that is built in (& video Chat)
- like that they can keep the account after they graduate
- enjoy the tweakable features.
Some examples are:
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