Teknoids

Hello Matthew,

I can sum it up in one sentence: “We
love Google Apps for Education!’.

We were an early adopter; we moved all of
our students onto google apps this past Fall.  We were the test bed and
did the initial rollout, mid way through this Spring semester the entire
University followed suit and now all students are on google apps.

1. Prior
   to google apps our students used iplanet which was provided by the
   University.  We maintain an exchange 2003 environment internally for
   staff and faculty.
2. This
   will be the first year that we rolled it out, but we have now gone through
   a full fall and spring semester without a hitch.
3. Yes,
   support is extremely helpful, we used them a lot to set things up for the
   initial rollout.  However, once we went live things have gone so
   smoothly that we have not needed them since.
4. Migration
   was a piece of cake.  You have to spend time planning things out but
   google is extremely helpful and things just work.  It was the most
   seamless migration that I have ever been involved with and I have been in
   IT for over 20 years.
5. Our
   students love Google Apps for Education, what is not to love.  Over
   6.5GB of storage, a user friendly interface, a complete suite of
   collaborative tools (which they did not have before), an email address
   that they will keep for life, and no rolling 6 month retention policy like
   we had with iplanet.  I was a bit worried about the fact that there
   were no folders (tags instead) and the arrangement with conversations but
   the students just picked it up.  We trained our help desk and
   everyone was ready but the Google call volume was non existent.

We will be presenting our implementation
of Google Apps for Education, Itunes University and YouTube at CALI, see you there.

Ray

From:
teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu
[mailto:teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Perna
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:06 AM
To: Teknoids
Subject: [teknoids] Is anyone
Using Gmail for Student Email?
Importance: Low

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