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Volume 75, Issue 23 SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 April 2, 2010
Tuesday is 'G-Day'
Brevard College changes to Google Apps for E-mail
by John B. Padgett
Contributor
Soon, moving or deleting messages to
free up E-mail space will not be a monthly
(or weekly, or daily) task.
Everyone with a “brevard.edu” E-mail
address should have received an E-mail
message this week that the college will
begin its transition this weekend to the use
of Google Apps for E-mail, calendar, and
personal contacts. The new system will
replace the Microsoft Exchange Server,
which has managed the campus E-mail
system for at least the past seven years.
With the new system come numerous
benefits, including 7 GB of storage space—
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instead of the current limits of 30 MB for
employees, and just 15 MB for students.
Since 1 gigabyte equals about 1,000
megabytes ... well, do the math.
Oh, and that is 7 GB of storage space
for each user
The switch to Google comes at a
time when more and more colleges and
universities look for ways to outsource
some basic information technology tasks
that traditionally had required hefty staffing
and financial burdens on the local campus. A
few prominent higher education institutions
that have made a change to Google in this
region include the University of Virginia,
the University of North Carolina-Asheville,
Appalachian State University, Wofford
College and Vanderbilt University.
The change at Brevard is similar to
other institutions’ attempts to be more
sustainable in the information technologies
they provide. An article on MyBC about
Brevard College’s change to Google Apps
points out that this switch will satisfy parts
of Commitments 4, 5, and 6 of the Brevard
College Strategic Plan. Among the benefits
are lower infrastructure costs, additional
tools for collaboration, and access to
services from anywhere at any time, even
off campus.
Michael Fuiks, Brevard’s director of
Information Technology, said that while
some users may find the switch a temporary
hurdle, the change to Google will reap
numerous rewards in the long run in
improving services his department delivers
to the Brevard College community.
“It is the wise thing to do,” Fuiks said.
“There are a lot of benefits.”
The transition will take place this
weekend. All users who have not already
switched to the new system should have
received E-mail aimouncing the change
and a link to a “Google Apps Quick Start
See Google, p. 2
What you need to know
about changing to Google
Follow these steps to make the switch to Google Apps easier.
1. Read the messages from IT this week about the change.
These include a link to the Google Apps Quick Start Guide and your new password to login to
Google Apps beginning on Tuesday.
2. SAVE your new password somewhere other than E-mail.
New mail will no longer be delivered to Outlook or Webmail after Monday.
3. Beginning on Tuesday, open “Brevard Mail.”
You can double-click the new “Brevard Mail” link on your desktop, or you can access it directly
online at http://mail.brevard.edu.
Your username will remain the same.
In the password field, enter the new password.
4. Follow the instructions on screen to set up your new Google
Apps account.
Personal contacts, calendar information, and E-mail on the exchange server will have been
imported.