SSCC Google Apps for Education (GA4E)


SSCC's Google Apps for Education (GA4E) includes:

Gmail: 7+GB of email storage and search tools that help students find information fast and instant messaging from right inside their accounts.
Calendar: Students can organize their class schedules and share events and calendars with others.
Talk: Students can call or send instant messages to their contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world.
Docs: Students can save homework files, share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Collaborate in real-time with teams or with your whole school.  Even publish final documents to the entire world, too.
Sites: Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one or more websites.
Video for education: A video hosting and sharing solution that enables schools and other organizations to use video as an effective medium for internal communication and collaboration ... and much more continues to be added weekly!

A history lesson: Way back, in the beginning of 2006, South Seattle 'early adopters' began investigating a myriad of online applications as another means of delivering education (in particular for face-2-face, hybrid and online classrooms) and to bring back 'student eMail accounts'.

At that time, we discovered a powerful 'Intranet-like' integrated suite of tools being offered educators and their students for FREE - giving each of our users over 7Giga Byes of storage!

It didn't take long before South seriously got on board and by March 27th 2008, SouthSeattle.edu eMail (a.k.a. Google Apps for Education, GA4E) was officially launched and it has become a foundational set of educational online tools used by faculty, staff and students across our campus and the district since!

Even our sister campus', Central (SCCC) and North (NSCC) have adopted Google Apps for Education (GA4E) for their student eMail and online educational tools, too!

Google Apps for Education (a video!)


GET STARTED!
  • Upon registration, all SSCC students are eligible for a FREE SouthSeattle.edu email account.  These accounts provide 7GB of space for saving homework files as well as providing powerful collaboration tools! We call this system "SSCC eMail & Google Apps for Education" (GA4E).

  • IMPORTANT: Contact the eLearning office (with this online form)  or call 206.764.7930
    to activate yours today!

  • eLearning staff will send your username and password after receiving your request

  • Sign in (after your account's been activated only) here: https://mail.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/

  • Trouble? Request Assistance 


  • "HOW TO SIGN IN" (training video, after you've received your login info)

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: By subscribing to an SSCC eMail & Google Apps for Education (GA4E) account, you acknowledge that Google is not acting on behalf of South Seattle Community College and any eMail transmission between you and College employees or others is subject to Google's Gmail privacy statement on the use and disclosure of eMail.

With your SSGA Account you get an integrated suite of the following applications - yours for free from here on and available to you anywhere you have a computer with Internet access!
 
SSCC eMail (ridiculous amount of eMail space with the #1 search tool, chat tool and more!)
SSCC START Page (maintain your own start page widgets: 'notes', news and much more!)
SSCC CALENDAR (create shared calendars and much more!)
SSCC DOCS (produce and share docs, spreadsheets, presentations and much more!)
SSCC TALK (Chat with other students and anyone who have a gmail or aim account! More alternate client services on the horizon!)
SSCC SITES (Create your own online website of college work!)

How to "LOGIN"

Use the following Username and Password schema to access all your SSCC E-mail and collaborative tools!
IMPORTANT: Please contact the eLearning office to activate your email account before you login.

1) USERNAME = 1st letter of your first name + your whole last name + the last 3 digits of your Student Identification Number (SID)
(- nothing else)

2) PASSWORD = a temporary one will be assigned to you by the eLearning staff - contact them

3) LOGIN = http://mail.southseattle.edu

** Request Assistance (if you have trouble signing in)**

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

Q: What is the difference between a public Google Account and a Google Apps for Education (GA4E) Account?
A: Google Acct vs Google Apps - explained here :)

Q: How secure is Google's email? Will my account have advertising? How much storage space will I get?
 
Q: Who can help me when I've forgotten my SSCC (GA4E) Email password or username?
A: SSCC E-mail (GA4E) administrators, Catherine McCollum, Sara Newman and Janice Lonergan (please fill out this form for assistance)

Q: I already have a gmail account - why would I want another?
A: Your SSCC E-mail & Web Apps account offers more features to our campus than the usual gmail account. For example, it has built-in collaborative tools for team projects. Plus you'll have an official college e-mail address to use when submitting work to potential employers, etc. SSCC eMail & Web Apps also provides a powerful online area to maintain your student work v.s. your personal online materials. That said, you can always FORWARD your SouthSeattle.edu e-mail to a preferred eeMail account. You can also take the reverse approach and point up to 5 different eMail accounts towards your new SSCC eMail account.
Watch these videos to learn how ...
1 min. video (no audio) FORWARD your SouthSeattle.edu e-mail to a preferred eMail account
    -Log in to your Southseattle.edu email account, Click on "Settings",
    -Click on "Forwarding and POP/IMAP"
    -Change settings to  "Forward a copy of incoming mail to:"  
        [type your preferred email address in the box]
    -Select "Archive SSCC College mail's copy" from the drop-down menu just below it.
    -Click "Save Changes
at the bottom of the page.
Q: Where do I login?
A: There are several ways to access SSCC eMail & Web Apps. Try any of the following based upon your preferred starting point.
Reminder of what you use to login AFTER eLearning staff activate your email account (don't forget to logout when you're done!)
    • Username = 1st letter of your first name + last name + last 3 digits of your Student Identification Number (SID)
    • Password = Same as your Username until you change upon first signing into SSCC eMail & Web Apps account. 
Q: Is my campus (computer) network account linked to my SSCC  eMail & Web Apps account?
A: No. Only the account names are the same. There is no link between South Seattle's network and your SSCC  eMail & Web Apps account.
Q: Who can help me if I experience technical problems with SSCC eMail & Web Apps?
A: Visit http://google.com/support/a/users/?hl=en for excellent online help :P


Request Assistance!

** REQUEST "SSCC E-Mail & Web Apps" Assistance **



Relational Flowchart of GA4E




Training Videos

  • DOCS (30) Training Videos (on YouTube!)
  • GMAIL (22) Training Videos (on YouTube!)
  • SITES (17) Training Videos (on YouTube!)
  • CALENDAR (16) Training Videos (on YouTube!)

  • Training Documents


    Testimonial Videos!

    Teachers and Principals Talk about Google Docs

    Students talk about Apps in Education


    A Quick Tour





    Important BLOGS

    Get more information about these powerful applications in a variety of ways -- begin with their Blog community!






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