mail Mail   Forward mail to username@g.lehigh.edu https://mail.google.com/a/lehigh.edu	Calendar Calendar   http://www.google.com/calendar/a/lehigh.edu   (also see Lehigh Public Calendars)
Docs Docs   (docs, presentations, spreadsheets, forms, drawings, etc.) http://docs.google.com/a/lehigh.edu	Sites Sites   Create a web site https://sites.google.com/a/lehigh.edu
Contacts Contacts   https://www.google.com/contacts/a/lehigh.edu/	Groups Groups   User managed mailing lists. https://groups.google.com/a/lehigh.edu/

Google Account Transition

Google is transitioning it's infrastructure to make all "Apps" accounts like consumer "gmail" accounts. What this means is that you're now able to login to your Lehigh.EDU account and access applications (such as blogger, picasa, voice, YouTube, etc.). The terms of services for these other applications are the same as the consumer versions terms of service. You may see a warning message that "This account is managed by lehigh.edu." which reminds you that the content you place there is tied to your Lehigh account/username.

If you go to login to a consumer google service with your lehigh.edu address once your account is transitioned, you will be redirected to the single-signon page. If you already have an existing google apps account using your lehigh.edu address with these other consumer applications, you will have the opportunity to rename it to a gmail.com account or transfer it to another non-lehigh address see http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=185186 for help. To access that old account, you may need to login as username%lehigh.edu@gtempaccount.com.

Check your account security with this checklist.

PLEASE READ THIS before you use Lehigh's Google apps...

Lehigh's service agreement with Google does not include provisions for data backup or file restoration. Email sent to trash is deleted after 30 days. Google Docs does retain previous versions of documents. Documents sent to trash remain there until explicitly deleted. After files and/or email are deleted from trash there is no way of restoring them.

Note to Lehigh Faculty and Staff: Do not store sensitive Lehigh data (ie. FERPA data) on Google apps. Sensitive data should remain in Banner or on other secured local systems. Do not use Google apps or any cloud based services for critical Lehigh services.

Note: Several Google Apps features, such as accessing mail or calendars from stand-alone programs or handhelds, require a "Google-stored" password, since they interact directly with Google's systems. Lehigh security policy requires that externally stored passwords be *different* from your Lehigh password. Use this utility to generate a "Google-stored" password to use with those features.