We're looking at giving our students g-mail accounts that will replace their existing Colgate e-mail accounts. There have been some twists and turns in how this will play out, but the goal is to provide students with a much greater storage capacity than we're able to offer while reducing the server maintenance and upkeep required on our end.
One of the interesting conversations concerns how they will access the new e-mail account. A nice option is to develop a new channel on our internal portal that will allow direct access -- and most importantly -- single sign-on to their g-mail accounts.
There are server issues here and security issues to consider. But we want to keep everyone using the portal system, and this would be a strong inducement.
Another goal: provide a seamless transition from the portal to Facebook. There is an API out there for that, but now we've got to sync that up with our Luminous system.
Anybody made the move to student g-mail accounts?
