 SSCC's Google Apps for Education (GA4E) account includes:Gmail: 7+GB (and growing) email capacity and #1 search engine embedded!Calendar: Share and organize events and class schedules with others! Talk: Send instant messages to contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world. Docs: 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, if desired! Sites: Store 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 early 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 provide 'student eMail accounts' to our campus.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 2007, 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!
Many colleges, including our sister campuses, Central (SCCC) and North (NSCC), have adopted Google Apps for Education (GA4E) for their student eMail and online educational tools, as well!
Google Apps for Education (a video!)
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SSCC eMail (ridiculous amount of eMail space with the #1 search tool, chat tool and more!) |
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SSCC CALENDAR (create shared calendars and much more!) |
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SSCC DOCS (produce and share docs, spreadsheets, presentations and much more!) |
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SSCC TALK (Chat with other students and anyone who have a gmail or aim account! More alternate client services on the horizon!) |
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SSCC SITES (Create your own online website of college work!) |
How to LOG-IN to GA4E
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.
* NEW! HOW TO LOGIN to a (login required site) WITH A UNIQUE EMAIL ADDRESS (printable instructions)
NOTE: this method does not work for all classes uses GA4E
A: SSCC GA4E accounts are NOT affected by campus systems. GA4E accounts reside on Google servers
Please review/print our SSCC GA4E support page for your records
Q: What is the difference between a public Google Account and an SSCC Google Apps for Education (GA4E) Account?
A: Google Acct vs Google Apps - explained here :)
USERNAME = 1st letter of your first name + your whole last name + the last 3 digits of your Student Identification Number (SID)
(- nothing else)
PASSWORD = a temporary one will be assigned to you by the eLearning staff.
Contact them to set up your account and assign you a password.
LOGIN Page = http://mail.southseattle.edu **
** Contact SSCC eLearning (206) 934-7930 if you ever have trouble signing in to your Google Apps for Education (GA4E) account.
eLearning office hours are Monday - Thursday 10am - 5pm
* NEW! HOW TO LOGIN to a (login required site) WITH A UNIQUE EMAIL ADDRESS (printable instructions)
NOTE: this method does not work for all classes uses GA4E
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Q: If the campus website is scheduled to be offline (for maintenance, etc.) will my Google Apps for Education (GA4E) Account be offline?A: SSCC GA4E accounts are NOT affected by campus systems. GA4E accounts reside on Google servers
Please review/print our SSCC GA4E support page for your records
Q: What is the difference between a public Google Account and an SSCC 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 Student Email Google Apps for Education (GA4E) password or username?
A: SSCC Student Email and Google Apps for Education (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 GA4E 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 Google Apps for Education (GA4E) 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 GA4E 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 your SSCC GA4E (student email and cloud applications).
Try any of the following based upon your preferred starting point.
Try any of the following based upon your preferred starting point.
- EMAIL http://mail.southseattle.edu or http://mail.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/
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DOCS http://docs.southseattle.edu or http://calendar.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/
- SITES http://sites.southseattle.edu or http://sites.google.com/a/southseattle.edu/
Reminder of what you need to use to log-in AFTER eLearning staff activates your email account. Please don't forget to log-out when you're done.
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Username = 1st letter of your first name + last name + last 3 digits of your Student Identification Number (SID)
- Password = eLearning staff will assign you a temporary password to use for your first log in. After that, you will be required to chose your own password. The temporary password will not work.
Q: Is my campus (computer) network account linked to my SSCC GA4E account?
A: No. Only the account names are the same. There is no link between South Seattle's network and your SSCC GA4E account.
Q: Who can help me if I experience technical problems with SSCC GA4E?
Request Assistance!
** REQUEST "SSCC Google Apps for Education (GA4E)" Assistance **
Relational Flowchart of GA4E
http://mail.southseattle.edu/ ~ http://calendar.southseattle.edu/ ~ http://docs.southseattle.edu/ ~ http://sites.southseattle.edu/ ~ http://students.southseattle.edu/
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW LARGE (Printable) Version
Training Videos
DOCS (30) Training Videos (on YouTube!) How to create an online form (8 mins)
- SSCC Student Email and Google Apps for Education (GA4E) Training
- Video created June 2008: LOGIN for the first time and test drive your SSCC Student E-mail & Google Apps for Education (GA4E) account! - 7+ min. video (no audio)
- Video created January 2009: Setting up your SSCC Student Email and Google Apps for Education (GA4E) calendar, student website and sharing a doc! - 23 mins (no audio)
- How to create a banner for your "site" using Photoshop and this .psd file as a template!
- RETRIEVE up to 5 e-mails accts and point them to your SSCC Student Email & Google Apps for Education (GA4E) account - 3 min. video (no audio)
- FORWARD your SouthSeattle.edu e-mail to a preferred e-mail account - 1 min. video (no audio)
- TLC Video: Upload PowerPoint into your Docs - Publish it - Add to a SITES web page- 3 min. video (no audio)
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TLC Video: How to login to your SSCC Google Apps for Education (GA4E) websites when they're not public ~ with an alternate email address that you've supplied to the owner of the SSCC Google Apps for Education (GA4E) website you're trying to access.
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TLC Video: How to publish a document so its visible on the Internet/YourWebsite - 1.7 min video (no audio)
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TLC Video: ADD COLLABORATORS to your sites (1 minute)
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TLC Video: CREATE a DOC, SHARE it, and then add it (INSERT) to your site pages (3.5 minutes)
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Two different ways we can share our files (.docs .xls .ppt - file types) via our SSCC Web Apps account, 24/7!
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another way is to create a "file cabinet" web page on your website where you can very easily upload files for folks to find (if you've set your website as public or by invitation only) as needed (4+ minutes)
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21 interesting ways to use Docs in classrooms and training! http://ischool.tv/googleapps/2008/10/30/interesting-ways-to-use-docs-in-the-classroom/
Training Documents
Testimonial Videos!
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Important BLOGS
Get more information about these powerful applications in a variety of ways -- begin with their Blog community!
- DOCShttp://googledocs.blogspot.com/
- EMAILhttp://gmailblog.blogspot.com/
- SITEShttp://googlesitesblog.blogspot.com/
- TALK http://googletalk.blogspot.com/