Getting started is really simple!
Log into your Google powered css.edu account (your email address is the same as it has always been) by going to http://email.css.edu.
You should be able to login with your current network username and password. If not, reset your network password. You can do so by going to this link.
09/21/1010: All previous users of groupwise should prepare for the full disconnection of that server from our infrastructure. After 10/01/2010 You WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS GROUPWISE. Please ensure that you have retained, saved, or had migrated all items to which to wish to have access.
Some of the concerns expressed by our community surround functionality previously enjoyed in Groupwise which is not available in Gmail and for which, at this time, a solution is not available. These include:
- Priority Tagging
- Read Receipts
Items such as this represent important functionality which will require us to examine process and work together.
Several issues are of crucial business concern and we have developed our response to them.
- "Mailto" links - There are several solutions to this issue.
- Right Click on any link and copy it. Paste it in your browser window and hit enter.
- Please go to our Gmailto page for other solutions.
- Mail Merge - The IT department can work with individuals for whom this is job specific and a business process requirement. If you do mail merges, please contact Lowell Larson at llarson@css.edu to make arrangements for developing this capacity.
One of the driving factors in our adoption of Google Apps was the vast resource of support materials provided by Google. Please take time to familiarize yourself with them. The IT department is happiest when we are empowering you to fish for yourself! There are many resources to assist with your new Gmail powered css.edu email account, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Most of the beta testers found the answer to their question within 5 minutes of simple web searching. Here are some starting points.
By this point, someone within your department has taken part in the beta test phase and can be a resource for you. Also, the helpdesk@css.edu and the friendly Google buddies in the IT department are available to assist at any time.
We've also created some resource pages which are directed to specific user needs. These will continue to evolve as our use of Gmail continues.
Students, please use this link
Faculty and Staff use this link
Send your official news items - the "need to know" kind - to either Student or Faculty-Staff Bulletin. They are at studentbulletin@css.edu or fsbulletin@css.com.
Send your "nice to know" items to either Student or Faculty-Staff Community. They're at
These two email groupings are replacing Daily Announcements.
Bulletin news includes institutional policy and College
information that has wide-reaching effects on employment, academics,
business practices or other fundamental activities and interests of our
faculty, staff and students. This includes new hires, academic news, first
notices of major College arts and entertainment events and the like.
Community includes news that, while important, is not
essential to the smooth functioning of the College or to a full realization
of the College's scope of activities. This would include items such as a
garage sale, a special Greenview menu, lost and found, and second and third
notices of a College event.
It's your professional responsibility to make sure that your information
goes to the right email group - "need to know" or "nice
to know".
If you're unsure, please ask one of us. We're happy to help.
Everyone will receive role targeted bulletins and community Announcements every day based on your membership in a group.
Bulletin and Faculty-Staff Community will be published in the early morning hours, so if you want something in on a given day, be sure to submit it by end-of-day before.
Anybody with a CSS email account can send to both announcement groups, however, you will only be able to view/receive announcements from the Group in which you are a member.
In Google Apps, at the top of the Google Page, click "more", then "Groups". You will see a listing of all the Groups of which you are a member. Just click your Announcement Group and you can see a history of announcements. As an alternative to emailing an announcement, you can also post an announcement by clicking "new post".
If you wish to unsubscribe from the Groups web page (at the top of the Google Page, click "more", then "Groups"), click your announcement group at the right, then click the "Edit my membership" link and select one of the following:
- No Email (only read the announcements on the web)
- Abridged Email (a summary of new announcements)
- Digest Email (default- sends a daily digest of new announcements)
- Email (sends each announcement as an individual email as it arrives)
Then click "Save Settings".
It is your professional and community responsibility to stay informed about the college. These are the official means by which we communicate. If you opt to not receive these emails, you do so at your own risk of being un-informed.
To assist with the creation of contact groups associated with your account, we've developed a self service, password protected group creator. Using this tool, in the directory, you can have a file automatically emailed to you which then, once imported, will create a contact group. Please view this exciting video.
The Google Contact Group Creator can be found at:
https://www2.css.edu/directory/contactgroupslogin.cfm
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