Collaboration Services News and Updates

Welcome to Week 2 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re going to start using our prepared tools from last week to begin organizing your mail and learning methods to keep the inbox maintained.  ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see last week’s post. 🗓️ Weekly Goal: Get your inbox completely emptied […]

Welcome to Week 1 of our 8-Week challenge to Ramscaping your Google Account! Follow along on our journey to cleaning up your Google account and don’t forget to subscribe to the blog to enter the giveaway!  🗓️ Weekly Goal: Create three (or more) labels and get at least 75% of your emails under them. 🔥 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 [email protected] […]

Collaboration Services is offering Q&A sessions for students currently enrolled in Spring 2021 classes, students who are eligible to enroll in classes but are not registered in Spring 2021 classes, and Spring 2021 Graduates to discuss and answer questions regarding how our Google Domain Merge will affect you. Please sign up for one of our […]

Please visit our Domain Merge page at https://go.vcu.edu/domainmerge for important upcoming Google account changes for Spring 2021 graduates, students taking Spring 2021 classes, and students who are eligible to enroll in classes but not enrolled in Spring 2021 classes. These changes will be taking effect over the next month. Please look for these important emails sent […]

Collaboration Services is excited to announce that the Domain Merge project for our Google domains is in progress. This project involves the merging of our separate Student (mymail.vcu.edu) Google domain into our Faculty & Staff (vcu.edu) Google domain.  Alumni Domain Changes The Domain Merge project includes significant changes to the Alumni domain: Alumni accounts will […]