INTRODUCTION
As an initiative of the IQAC, official email IDs for all staff at Mar Ivanios College have been rolled out under Google Apps for Education.
Google Apps is a cloud based suite of eight programmes, including Gmail, which is of benefit to the educational sector. 66 of the top 100 U.S universities have adopted Google Apps for education. For a list of Indian institutions using Google Apps for education, click HERE.
Faculty have access to the entire range of Google Apps.
The full list of College webmail users can be found HERE.
As an initiative of the IQAC, official email IDs for all staff at Mar Ivanios College have been rolled out under Google Apps for Education.
Google Apps is a cloud based suite of eight programmes, including Gmail, which is of benefit to the educational sector. 66 of the top 100 U.S universities have adopted Google Apps for education. For a list of Indian institutions using Google Apps for education, click HERE.
Faculty have access to the entire range of Google Apps.
The full list of College webmail users can be found HERE.
HOW TO START USING YOUR OFFICIAL EMAIL ID
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Each staff member has been allotted an official email ID. This has the format FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@MIC.AC.IN or NAME.INITIALS@MIC.AC.IN. For example the email ID of Dr Joseph K Thomas will be joseph.thomas@mic.ac.in and that of Ms. A.B Geetha will be geetha.ab@mic.ac.in. This format has been adopted for the sake of ease of use. Anyone requiring new email IDs for themselves or for any group may kindly contact sysadmin@mic.ac.in or call 9447056445 (George Mathew).
Log in to Gmail as you would for your personal Gmail account, and type in your email ID as given above and your temporary password; you will be asked to change this at your first log in.
When you try to log in you may get a message like this:
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Each staff member has been allotted an official email ID. This has the format FIRSTNAME.LASTNAME@MIC.AC.IN or NAME.INITIALS@MIC.AC.IN. For example the email ID of Dr Joseph K Thomas will be joseph.thomas@mic.ac.in and that of Ms. A.B Geetha will be geetha.ab@mic.ac.in. This format has been adopted for the sake of ease of use. Anyone requiring new email IDs for themselves or for any group may kindly contact sysadmin@mic.ac.in or call 9447056445 (George Mathew).
Log in to Gmail as you would for your personal Gmail account, and type in your email ID as given above and your temporary password; you will be asked to change this at your first log in.
When you try to log in you may get a message like this:
This is an additional security measure; so kindly supply your mobile number and follow the instructions.
You may also get another message like this:
You may also get another message like this:
This is part of Google Privacy policy, which you can read here.
To activate your account, please click I ACCEPT. CONTINUE TO MY ACCOUNT.
Once you sign, in you will be taken to your INBOX, which will look like this:
To activate your account, please click I ACCEPT. CONTINUE TO MY ACCOUNT.
Once you sign, in you will be taken to your INBOX, which will look like this:
It would be ideal at this time to SET A SIGNATURE also. Your signature is your name, designation and address, which will appear on all your emails, once you set it up. Click on the SET A SIGNATURE link and it will take you to the settings page:
Enter your name, designation and official address details in the given box.
After you SET A SIGNATURE you could also upload a profile picture.
PS: Tip: it would be also be useful to tick the last small box below the space given to enter your signature.
Once so much is done you are ready to start using you official email ID.
After you SET A SIGNATURE you could also upload a profile picture.
PS: Tip: it would be also be useful to tick the last small box below the space given to enter your signature.
Once so much is done you are ready to start using you official email ID.
PLEASE NOTE THAT:
The System Administrator has rights to:
The System Administrator CANNOT
You will be immediately notified on your mobile phone and your alternate email ID if any unauthorized attempt is made to access your email or change your password. This information has to be updated in your account for the notification to be activated. Please do this as this is a mandatory security requirement.
Even without this, you can see the time you opened your account most recently at the bottom right corner of your screen after you log into your email ID.
The System Administrator has rights to:
- Add and delete users
- Reset passwords
The System Administrator CANNOT
- See the content of your emails or the documents you may store in your drive.
You will be immediately notified on your mobile phone and your alternate email ID if any unauthorized attempt is made to access your email or change your password. This information has to be updated in your account for the notification to be activated. Please do this as this is a mandatory security requirement.
Even without this, you can see the time you opened your account most recently at the bottom right corner of your screen after you log into your email ID.