Google Groups

Google Groups is a useful platform for having discussions around a common central theme with specific people.

• Forums

• Chat rooms

• Announcements

Settings

• Email List

• Web Forum (Discussion Board)

• Questions and Answers (Q&A) Forum

• Collaborative Inbox

End-users can have email discussions and share documents, calendars, sites and folders with the members of a group. 

They also have the ability to view and search group discussion archives. 

Anonymous Web Posting

To post via the web without a Google account or email use Google Forms to feed a response to Google Groups email as a collaborative inbox to assign messages.

Training Resource

• Google Groups Cheatsheet - by Learn Google

Articles

• The 4 Kinds of Google Groups (and how to use them)

  1. Email List

  2. Web Forum (discussion board)

  3. Q&A Forum

  4. Collaborative Inbox / Chatroom

Also See

• Email Marketing

• Google Apps for Work

• Gmail

• Google Calendar

• Google Hangouts

• Google Drive

• Google Sites

• Google Contacts

• Google Apps Vault