Google Workspace @ Delsea Regional
Google Workspace for Education (formerly known as G Suite for Education) is a platform designed to empower teachers and students to innovate and collaborate using email, calendars, document sharing, and more from your delsearegional.us account. The name change and new icons reflect Google's commitment to providing a flexible foundation to support learning, communication, and collaboration.
Gmail
http://mail.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
Delsea uses a specific domain name (@delsearegional.us) for your school email address which is different than a basic (gmail.com) domain. You have access to all that Gmail has to offer under your school email.
Calendar
http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/delsearegional.us
Organize your life - keep a calendar for yourself, share calendars with others, and subscribe to public calendars to stay on top of school and district events.
Drive
http://drive.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
Create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, and download them to your favorite desktop applications. Great for collaborative projects that are accessible from anywhere.
Docs
http://docs.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
Create and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, and download them to your favorite desktop applications. Great for collaborative projects that are accessible from anywhere.
Google Groups
http://groups.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
Create groups to host discussions and make plans with teams, organizations, students, etc. Create a Q & A forum for any topic.
Sites
http://sites.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
Create and Manage your own website for your classes, clubs, or sports teams. Completely secure and coding-free!!!
FAQ's
Why are we using Google Workspace?
To bring together essential communication applications. To improve productivity and communication. We can focus on student needs and add value to the experience while Google Workspace focuses on building excellent products, maintaining the feature set, and innovating our communication options for tomorrow.
Our goal is to offer you a reliable, practical, secure, feature-rich email environment. We think Google Workspace can help.
We can focus on the core values of our school, such as student relationships, and let Google Workspace leverage its extensive operational experience with security and privacy.
Our IT staff can utilize an administrative set of APIs to build on top of Google Workspace rather than starting from ground zero.
How do I get started?
Log in to http://www.google.com/a/delsearegional.us with your username and password, and you'll be authenticated for Google Workspace services.
If you want to visit Google Workspace services directly visit any of the links above. You can also bookmark them for even faster access!
What options do I have for accessing email?
The primary option is email - https://mail.google.com/a/delsearegional.us
It's packed with exciting features and integrated with other Google Workspace services. In your online email account, you can create filters to organize your inbox before new mail arrives, snooze an email to pop up at a later date, schedule calendar events, choose how your inbox looks, access a variety of features via right-clicking on an email, and so much more.
Alternative access options include:
Google Workspace Sync for Outlook
This is the most robust option for those who want to utilize Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client. If you would like to utilize this on a district computer please contact TechSupport and we can help you get started. To utilize this service at home visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gssmo
POP or IMAP
Configuring instructions are very similar to Gmail. In your mail client, anytime you're asked for an email address, enter your full email address (example: jdoe@delsearegional.us).
The incoming server is still pop.gmail.com or imap.gmail.com and the outgoing server is smtp.gmail.com. For more client-specific instructions, such as Outlook Express, visit https://support.google.com/a/answer/12103?hl=en.
Mobile
Connect to the web. Enter http://mail.google.com/a/delsearegional.us, and select OK. Bookmark the location for later.
If you have a smartphone you can download the Gmail application from your perspective app store for iOS or Android.
How are the Google Workspace services linked together?
You have one username for all services in the Google Workspace for Education package. Once you log in to one service, you can easily access all others via the apps launcher icon near your picture icon in the right corner of your email.
What do I need to know about documents and spreadsheets?
It's a web-based word processing and spreadsheet application. It can help us collaborate on projects from anywhere. Your documents are stored online. You and anyone you invite to collaborate can access the document from any internet-connected computer, and make changes simultaneously. Multiple people can make changes at once, and everyone's changes show in real-time.
You can get started right away by creating a new document or by uploading a file from your computer. Since the products are integrated, you can use your email account Contacts list to invite people to view or edit your documents.
Additional product features:
Revision history -- Individual edits are kept so you can see who made changes and revert back, if necessary.
Search -- Just like the rest of Google products, you can harness the power of Google search to look for a document you haven't edited in months.
Security and privacy -- You choose who sees your document. Other users can only access your document or spreadsheet if you add them to the list of collaborators or viewers, or if you decide to publish the document.
Where can I find more information or get more help?