Google Apps For Saline Area Schools

Let's talk about Google Apps (http://www.google.com/a/)


Next year Saline Area Schools will be moving to Google Apps and I wanted to give some links to some great training, faqs and resources that Google has provided for us. Here are the video tutorials: http://services.google.com/apps/training/index.html, here you will find all the training you will ever need along with FAQs and discussion boards.

Also, here is a short flash presentation showing all the Google apps features: https://services.google.com/apps/site/overview/index.html


If you have a gmail account then you will easily pick up Google Apps, it's basically the same thing, just specific to Saline. Let me take a moment and answer a few questions regarding our migration:

Question: Will I have all my old email and folders?
Answer: Yes, you will have all your email and it will be labeled according to your folders, gmail uses labels instead of folders.

Question: What about my Contacts?
Answer: We will transfer over all your contacts currently in your personal address book. The global addresss book, which has all saline.k12.mi.us addresses will also be available.

Question: Will my email address change?
Answer: No, it will remain username@saline.k12.mi.us

Question: How will I get to my email?
Answer: The same way you do now, either by logging into the website and clicking the link(the name of the link may change).

Question: When will the migration occur?
Answer: In June, I can't give an exact date yet but it will defintely be in June.


If you have any more questions that the tutorials or FAQs can't answer please email me: lupok


Words of Wisdom: The old software model of the past is an aging dinosaur, everything will be online and it will happen sooner than you think.


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Until next time,
Ken