Google Apps for Education: Gmail and Spam

Schools-On-I-Net chose to integrate its online school management system with Google Apps for Education’s Gmail email product.  One of the main reasons why is that we liked Gmail because of its SPAM handling, user interface, and suite of collaborative tools.

Gmail has the highest customer satisfaction for free anti-spam filters.

Spam is an issue for any email system administrator.  Google Apps for Edu offers great spam filters. But there are some whose email boxes get more spam than others.  Some reasons why include:

• The email account or domain is posted on public webpages
• The email account is “guess-able” on a particular domain (like info@ or admin@…)
• The email account is submitted through online forms that may not be secure (Always look for a notation of security when using online forms like a lock at the bottom or an https which means that information is transfered in an encrypted format.)

To learn more about Spam and Gmail,  click here.

SOIN works with Gmail or any email system you choose for your school. Our integration with Gmail provides some additional features, like managing users in one place, automatically updating user changes and sharing contact groups between SOIN and Gmail.

More email protection: SOIN Gateway; Postini

SOIN schools using Google Apps Gmail have an added layer of protection. SOIN applies our own custom filters to protect our users further.

Google Apps for Education is free for schools. For additional services, including more control on incoming and outgoing emails, archiving and domain level rules, Google offers Postini, a per user per year service add on.  http://www.google.com/postini

Hooray! St. Hubert Catholic High School is now using Google Apps for Education.
And we helped set them up. Contact us for help setting up your Google Apps for EDU account.  Email services@schoolsoninet.com

We thank St. Hubert Catholic High School for providing us with the following list of Google Apps for Edu references for us to share with you:

Google Apps – Overview

Google Apps Quick Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJT3pagjd8s (video)

Google Apps in Practice (approx. 11 mins.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Leuvce3v5BM

Google Apps General Overview (2 mins.)

http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/apps_video.html

Google Apps General Overview Tour (approx. 10-15 mins.)

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/index.html

Google for Educators

http://www.google.com/educators/index.html

Google Apps Training Overview

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews/welcome/topicWelcome/index.html

http://services.google.com/apps/resources/overviews_breeze/Apps/index.html (ppt)

Google Gmail

Gmail Overview and Help

http://mail.google.com/support/

Voice and Video Chat

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100173

Google Docs

Google Docs Tour

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYPjJK6LZdM

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html

Google Forms

http://edublogs.tv/play.php?vid=1009 (approx. 10 mins.)

Google Calendar

Google Calendar Tour

http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlecalendar/tour.html

Google Calendar and Contacts on mobile phone

http://www.google.com/mobile/default/sync.html

Google Sites

Google Sites Tutorial

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=9cfd5af860d9933673be&page=&viewtype=&category=

http://www.google.com/sites/help/intl/en/overview.html

More Google Products

http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/