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Support and resources for students

From on campus to online, students at The College of St. Scholastica have access to many tools for productivity, pursuit of academic excellence and participating in healthy community. It's the goal of the Information Technologies department to create, maintain, support and grow an environment where all members of the community have access to the resources required to succeed.

Hot Topic: Google Apps

google apps for edu The process for migration to the new Google powered @css.edu email for students is pretty straight forward. Many of you are already familiar with the functionality, look and feel and operations of Gmail. You will still have the same email address and password you used for Groupwise.

This actually represents the first part of a larger transition in the way web based services are delivered to our community, it's called "Single Sign On" and will allow you to login in one place, the new portal coming second semester 2011, and have access to all of your services without signing on again. For now, we're starting with how we handle email and calendaring, by moving to Google Apps for .edu.

The main thing to be aware of is that all items in student email accounts prior to 08/16/2010 will not be migrated. You will need to save anything associated with that email out from Groupwise. This includes attachments, content of emails, calendar items and contact information.

Please use the tabs below to find instructions on how to retain old information and set-up and use your new Gmail powered css.edu email.

We've assembled many resources for you to assist with your new Gmail powered css.edu email account.

Groupwise Email will still be available to you until October 1st for you to access your old emails. If you would like to move any of your old emails to Gmail, there are two methods for doing this. The IT Help Desk has created a video tutorial for method one.

Log on your Google account. Go to the top right top side of the page and click on settings. On the top bar go click Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Go to the third section (IMAP Access) and click on Enable IMAP. Click on Save Changes

Go to Google search bar and type "thunderbird" chose the first link. There's an icon with the word "free download" click on it and download thunderbird. (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/)

Install thunderbird.

The program will launch automatically asking you to put your name, email address and you password.

Type your name, then your email (your username@css.edu), and then your password. Click on continue.

Make sure that you have two green lights for Incoming and Outgoing.

Click on Create Account, and then it will load all your emails from your Google account.

Click once on your name on your name on the top left side. Then click on Create a new account.

A window will show up, the same window that showed up before. Put the same information that you used before, you name and email: your username@css.edu, and your password. Click on continue.

Go and click on Edit, go to SMTP and change the number from 465 to 25, and put 993 for IMAP. Click on Re-test Configuration. Make sure you have the Incoming and the Outgoing are green. Click on Create Account. You will get your Group Wise account underneath the Gmail one.

If you want to foreword emails from your inbox: highlight the emails and go to Messages in the top menu, and then to Move to, the first one is your Gmail and the second is your Group Wise, so you want to choose the first one and also you can choose in which folder you want them.

For folders: you can use "Drag and Drop way" Click on the folder you want to move and keep clicking and drag it to the up folders on the Gmail account and drop it there.

Check your Gmail account to make sure you have everything.
Manually - Review the contents of your email account and select the important items (i.e. academic work, papers, reports, personal information) and download them to your computer, then retain them there. An email inbox is actually a very inefficient means of storing and organizing your work.

In both cases, Groupwise will be available as it has been, but unable to send or receive email, for a period after the transition has been completed for the express purpose of allowing users to download and save items of importance.

Send your official news items - the "need to know" kind - to Student Bulletin at studentbulletin@css.edu .

Send your "nice to know" items to Student Community at
studentcommunity@css.edu .
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".