Collaboration Services News and Updates

Welcome to Week 4 of our Ramscaping challenge! This is the final week of our Gmail cleaning journey before we move onto Google Drive! Today we’re trimming away our oldest emails, taking a look at best practices for handling Spam, and finally taking out the Trash. 🎉 Congratulations to our Ramscaping Week 3 winner, Brian […]

Welcome to Week 3 of our Ramscaping challenge! This week we’re going to start pruning the largest mail we can find and learn how to search for mail with attachments. 🎉 Congratulations to our Week 1 winner, Alice C. and Week 2 winner, Denise L. ⏪ If you missed last week, click here to see […]

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 […]

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 […]

We’re excited to provide you with our February to March of 2023 Google Feature Updates post. This post includes new functions in Google Sheets, reactions in Google Meet, a refreshed interface for Drive and the Docs Editors, new smart canvas features, and more.  Table of contents Google Calendar Check availability across multiple calendars when using […]

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 […]

As we jump into the thick of 2023, we’re happy to provide our first features blog post for the year which discusses several great features recently announced by Google. We’re eagerly looking forward to what this year will have in store for enriching collaboration.  Check out the Table of Contents below to find the features […]

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 […]