ITS

Oxyconnect

Oxy uses Google Apps for Education to provide Email, Calendar, and online collaboration tools such as Google Docs through your Oxyconnect account.

Your Oxyconnect account also offers access to a number of additional Google Apps communication and collaboration tools such as Blogger, Maps, Reader, Picasa, You-Tube, Google+, Google Scholar, Knol, Panaramio, Latitude, Earth, Sketch-up, Trends, Finance, and Fusion Tables. To access them, log into Oxyconnect and click on More > Even More in the menu bar.

Support

We offer full support for email, calendar and docs through the Technology Helpdesk. Also check out the Google Apps Learning Center or the Google Apps for Education Training Center for tips, tricks and training videos for Google's "core" services (email, calendar, docs, sites).

Though we are not familiar with all of the bells and whistles that the additional services offer, we will try to assist you if you have questions. You can also consult the Google Support Center, which contains links to Google's help options for each of their services (please note that some services have not been enabled or are not available for oxy.edu accounts).

A wealth of  documentation and videos can also be found online on YouTube and other websites. One thing to keep in mind when searching more broadly online is that Google regularly updates their products to include new features, so limiting your search to recently posted results (no more than the last year) using advanced search functions or search operators can be very helpful.

Google's Terms of Service

Please review Google's Privacy Policy for these services. Also note that any profiles you build with these Google services must indicate that you are at least 13 years old, or your Google account will be immediately disabled. Your birthdate and age are not revealed to anyone unless you choose to make that information public.

Exporting/Saving your Data

Google offers a 1-click download option for saving data from some Google services through Google Takeout. If you don't find what you need there, try looking for that service in Google's Data Liberation Project for more information on how to download your data. If the service doesn't appear in that list, you cannot export data from that service yet. If you are signing up for something that you want to be sure that you can keep, you may want to consider using a personal Gmail account instead of your Oxy account.

Key notes - what you should know before you begin using the following services:

Blogger
Google+