Forward Los Rios Gmail

I created a video showing how to set up forwarding for Los Rios Gmail to another email account. This is especially for students who were used to the automatic forwarding that occurred with our previous student email system.

And Other Google Accounts

I did some testing with using a Google Form and some coworkers and discovered that before sharing something that requires Los Rios authentication (like limiting a form to Los Rios people or certain users), the recipients should be warned that they should be logged out of other Google accounts before clicking on a link to a Los Rios Google item that requires authentication.

Some of our users will learn the neat trick that the Google Chrome browser has where you can different users active on the same computer (but in different browser windows).

Los Rios Google Apps and PowerPoint

Los Rios Google Apps can be used to manage PowerPoint presentations.

Student Editors on a Los Rios Google Apps Site

This is cross-posted on Greg Desires2Blog
The Los Rios Google Sites tool can support a group assignment wherein create a web site together. This video shows how to add students' Los Rios Google user accounts as editors to a Los Rios Google Site. The names are taken from the classlist on a D2L course offering.

Sharing MS Office Documents with Coworkers

Documents in MS Office can be shared confidentially with coworkers for the purposes of collaboration. This can be done with and among students as well, but for them the complete Los Rios Google username must be used (i.e., the names of students cannot be typed and w+StudentID@apps.losrios.edu is required).

Sharing Los Rios GaGA Documents in D2L

This is cross-posted on Greg Desires2Blog
You can use a Los Rios Google Apps (GaGA) document to collect data from students, say for a sign-up sheet. Here are the steps, starting in your GaGA document:

1. In your GaGA document click the blue Share button to open the Sharing settings dialog box.
2. Paste the list of your students' GaGA usernames separated by commas to the Add people box (be sure to append @apps.losrios.edu after each student's Los Rios username)
3. Because not all students have yet upgraded to Los Rios Gmail, do not check the box to notify people via email (you will do this via D2L)
4. Copy the "Link to share" at the top of the Sharing settings dialog box (this includes a very long string of characters)

Then tell your students the following in D2L:

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1. Log in to the Los Rios Google Apps domain (http://apps.losrios.edu) using your Los Rios username and password
2. Click on [insert a url quicklink to the "Link to share" you copied from your GaGA document]

If that second step does not work for you, do the following after logging in to Los Rios Google Apps:

1. Click on the link to "Other Google Apps"
2. Click on the link to "Drive and Docs"
3. Click on the link to "Shared with me"
4. Click on the link to "[name of your shared document]"