Google Apps

1. What is Google Apps?

Google Apps is a bridge between our organization and Google products. On one side, we have communication and collaboration needs for the College. On the other side, there are successful, innovative, online personal Google products. Google Apps allows us to embrace the strengths of both sides.

Google quality, Google connectivity. Our school, our people. Powerful, easy-to-use tools. Communicate via e-mail, instant messaging and voice calls. Create and share calendar events, documents and spreadsheets. Access it all from one place — the Start Page.

2. Why are we using Google Apps?

Google Apps brings together essential communication applications. It improves productivity and communication. The College can focus on student needs and adding value to the experience while Google focuses on building excellent products, maintaining the feature set and innovating our communication options for tomorrow.

Our goal is to offer you a reliable, practical, secure, feature-rich Web mail environment. We think Google can help.

Florida State College at Jacksonville can focus on our core values, such as student relationships, and let Google leverage its extensive operational experience with security and privacy.

Our IT staff can utilize an administrative set of APIs to build on top of Google Apps rather than starting from ground zero.

3. How do I get started?

You begin the way you do currently. Log in to our network at https://connections.fscj.edu/ with your username and password, and you’ll be authenticated for Google services as well.