UCD Moving student email to GMail

OSI

About frigging time!

http://www.ucd.ie/itservices/news/news2011/newstudentmailpoweredbygoogle/

bnt

It'll still be ucdconnect.ie, but with all the facilities associated with GMail including Calendar and Google Docs. I worked on a group project this semester and we collaborated that way. You can actually have more than one person working on the same document, and see the other people's changes in near-real time, but the performance did go downhill badly when we did that.

I'll be curious to see whether they make full use of the Calendar e.g. automatically insert lecture and exam times. If you have a device that supports the Microsoft Exchange protocol (incl. iPhone, iPod Touch, Android, Windows Mobile) you should be able to sync your Calendar and Contacts as well as email, as I've been doing with my Gmail account.

PS: Brownie points to the IT staff for not doing this in the middle of a working semester. Anyone remember the great Blackboard outage a couple of years ago?

Conor108

I just forward my UCD Connect mail into Gmail

Blut2

bnt wrote: »

PS: Brownie points to the IT staff for not doing this in the middle of a working semester. Anyone remember the great Blackboard outage a couple of years ago?

Would have made a lot more sense to delay it for 2 weeks and do it after the exams process though in fairness, just in case of any teething problems (and/or so people can get used to the new system at a time when they wont be sending any urgent emails to lecturers).

dr gonzo

Blut2 wrote: »

Would have made a lot more sense to delay it for 2 weeks and do it after the exams process though in fairness, just in case of any teething problems (and/or so people can get used to the new system at a time when they wont be sending any urgent emails to lecturers).

Thats what is happening, this isnt coming in til the end of May.

Sad Professor

I use the mail client on my Mac to check and send all my email so this won't really affect me. But the integration with Google Calendar and Docs will be good.

RandolphEsq

Will the ucdconnect.ie email expire after one graduates? I have come to appreciate it like I appreciate my mobile number

Sad Professor

RandolphEsq wrote: »

Will the ucdconnect.ie email expire after one graduates? I have come to appreciate it like I appreciate my mobile number

Eventually, yes. I think it can continue to work for up to a year though.

RandolphEsq

Sad Professor wrote: »

Eventually, yes. I think it can continue to work for up to a year though.

Even with this new Google powered system?

Sad Professor

Well, yeah, that might change now that they are going with Google. It depends whether they want former students to have a UCD email.

WeeBushy

A friend of mine whose account expired was able to get it reactivated as he had emails that he needed for a masters application, so they could be easily kept on if UCD wanted.

I would like to keep it now that its powered by gmail, would be nice to have a UCD account that we could continue to use after graduating, like in Trinity, except for my god awful email address, ****.**-******@ucdconnect.ie. Its so fcuking long and awkward. It's the dash they put into my second name and the @ucdconnect.ie that make it so cumbersome.

I wish it was just firstname.secondname@ucd.ie

SirLemonhead

WeeBushy wrote: »

A friend of mine whose account expired was able to get it reactivated as he had emails that he needed for a masters application, so they could be easily kept on if UCD wanted.

I would like to keep it now that its powered by gmail, would be nice to have a UCD account that we could continue to use after graduating, like in Trinity, except for my god awful email address, ****.**-******@ucdconnect.ie. Its so fcuking long and awkward. It's the dash they put into my second name and the @ucdconnect.ie that make it so cumbersome.

I wish it was just firstname.secondname@ucd.ie

Ask them to change it, if it's available.

WeeBushy

SirLemonhead wrote: »

Ask them to change it, if it's available.

I didn't know you could change it... interesting. Doubt I could get rid of the connect bit though, @ucd.ie is the preserve of staff afaik.

Chet T16

You can get your address changed once, i know someone who originally had theirs in irish but wanted it changed

My bloody connect email is xxxxxxx.xxxxx.7@ucdconnect.ie i don't feel very unique

delta_bravo

I emailed them a week ago asking if we could keep our email addresses when we graduate as I am just finished this week. They replied back saying they havent made a decision yet but mentioned something about the cost and stuff so they didn't sound too optimistic.

conor.hogan.2

I imagine you get to keep it if your an alumni? (ie pay them).