Class of 2012

The WSA-ITS Committee is pleased to announce that the transition to Google Apps for Education has been approved and will go online for the start of the spring semester. Google Apps will give students many new options in their digital lifestyle, including expanded e-mail capacity, calendaring, and digital collaboration.

Wes Google Apps email will not affect your email address.  Your address will continue to be user@wesleyan.edu.  Your Wes Google account will not have ads and will be accessible via ePortfolio and a Wesleyan Google Apps login page.

Students will  have the opportunity to opt-out of Google Apps. By opting out, students will remain on the locally hosted Wesleyan e-mail and will continue to have a 100 MB limit on their e-mail account. Google has a much larger limit on their email accounts (7GB’s and growing). The option to opt-out will appear in your Student Portfolio in the coming days.

Once you have been moved to Google Apps for Education, you will not be able to return to Wesleyan hosted e-mail. If you choose to opt-out now, there will still be opportunities to opt-in in the future.

More information to follow soon.

We encourage you to explore Google Apps for Education at http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/demos.html.

We also invite you to visit the Wesleyan Google Apps blog http://googleapps.blogs.wesleyan.edu.

The WSA-ITS Committee is dedicated to making technology more student friendly.