Collaboration Services News and Updates

Like a lawn or garden, your VCU Google account needs regular maintenance to keep things functioning and manageable, and when things start to get out of hand, it can be difficult to know where to start to get back on top. Over the coming weeks, we invite you to join our summer challenge: “Ramscaping your […]

As spam and scams evolve, spam filters evolve too; other universities and agencies are taking additional steps to keep their communities safe. Have you ever seen an email with this warning banner? Follow these 15 tips to prevent your email from being mistakenly flagged this way. Below, we’ve provided some easy ways to improve the […]

Spring has sprung, and you know what that means… Spring cleaning! Just like your own home, your VCU Google Workspace account may begin to accumulate extra items, such as mail and files in Drive, that you might not need anymore and can be trashed, or might be good to put away in an appropriate place […]

We’re excited to start off the year with a quick look at a brief recap of the bigger updates from last year, some upcoming feature updates, a mention of important upcoming changes to storage, and finally a mention of our training opportunities and the new IT Status page. Also keep an eye out next week […]

The Collaboration Services team is excited to welcome or welcome back all students, faculty, and staff to 2022 and the Spring 2022 semester! Below we’ve rounded up everything you need to know as we get started with a new year and new semester. Newest features and changes Check out our latest blog posts regarding the […]

Happy new year! After a few slow months for feature releases, we have accumulated the most notable features and changes. We are hoping 2022 will be a year packed full of great new features. Google Docs Easily add to Google Docs with the new universal @ menu The universal @ menu is a feature previously […]

All previous mymail.vcu.edu accounts, now archive.mymail.vcu.edu, will no longer be available starting January 3rd, 2022. On that date, no further access to these accounts will be able to be granted.  This change will impact not just students but faculty and staff members as well. Please see below to see how this may affect you. Current […]

The Collaboration Services team is happy to welcome or welcome back all students, faculty, and staff to the Fall 2021 semester. Below we’ve rounded up the most important news and what you need to know as we jump into the new semester.  Our Google domains have merged All students are now part of the vcu.edu […]

Google Shared Drives are a great collaboration tool to manage documents and folders for a project, team, department, committee, classroom, or other team-like structure. We strongly recommend shared drives for team collaboration to ensure important folders and documents do not disappear as team members leave (or graduate from) the university. Benefits of a Shared Drive […]

We are approaching the final phase of our Google Domain Merge project. This final phase will affect Spring 2021 graduates and currently enrolled students. See below to see how this will affect each category and for additional information for Faculty and Staff. Currently Enrolled Students Current Enrolled Students: Will begin signing into their new eID@vcu.edu […]