Is anyone Using Gmail for Student Email?

Submitted by mperna on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 8:10am.

Does anyone use Gmail’s educational offer for free
email and Google apps to students?

 

If so:

 

  1. What type of email system did
    you run prior? And are you still running it for staff and faculty?
  2. How long have you had Gmail
    incorporated into your Email production environment?
  3. Do you find support helpful?
  4. How was the migration to Gmail?
  5. What has been the
    student’s reaction to Gmail?

 

If anyone has any horror stories or fantastic experiences
that would be great to hear about as well.

 

Thank you in advance for all your answers and help,

 

 

Matthew Perna

Network Administrator

Touro Law Center

225 East View
Drive

Central Islip NY  11722

 

Email: Mperna@tourolaw.edu

Phone: 631-761-7072

Cell:     631-708-6418

 

Support: IT@tourolaw.edu

Phone: 631-761-7070

 

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Is anyone Using Gmail for Student Email?
Submitted by gary.p.moore on Mon, 05/12/2008 - 8:20am.

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Matthew
 
Yes, along with the university we use GMail.  its been 2 years now.  Don't really know about the support from Google, probably because its never down. :-)  The support students ask for is how to set it up for outlook and we have instructions on that.
 
I can say is it has worked a lot better than Novell Netmail, which was the prior email system the students used and I have noticed that students use their Hofstra gmail accounts a lot more than they used the netmail accounts.
 
Gary
 
Gary Moore, CISSPAssistant Dean for Information SystemsHofstra University School of LawGary.P.Moore@hofstra.edu(516) 463-6067
 
"Be Sincere. Be Brief. Be Seated"Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech advice to his son>>> MPerna@tourolaw.edu 5/12/2008 10:06 AM >>>

Does anyone use Gmail's educational offer for free email and Google apps to students?
 
If so:
 


  1. What type of email system did you run prior? And are you still running it for staff and faculty?
  2. How long have you had Gmail incorporated into your Email production environment?
  3. Do you find support helpful?
  4. How was the migration to Gmail?
  5. What has been the student's reaction to Gmail?

 
If anyone has any horror stories or fantastic experiences that would be great to hear about as well.
 
Thank you in advance for all your answers and help,
 
 
Matthew Perna
Network Administrator
Touro Law Center
225 East View Drive
Central Islip NY  11722
 
Email: Mperna@tourolaw.edu
Phone: 631-761-7072
Cell:     631-708-6418
 
Support: IT@tourolaw.edu
Phone: 631-761-7070
 

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