NAU’s President, Dr. Haeger, approved adopting Google Apps for Education (GAE) in December 2008 based on the recommendation of a committee that included a large number of student representatives. After a lengthy legal review, a pilot began on June 1, 2009. The pilot is going well and has over 100 active participants. The plan is to migrate every student off the old email system by mid-December. The migration will proceed in stages:

1. Pilot users moved to the new system in June 2009
2. Inactive student accounts will be migrated before August 2009
3. Some current students will migrate between August 4 and August 15 prior to the start of the term
4. Migration activities will cease from August 15 – September 7 to allow us to support the start of the term
5. Student migrations will resume September 8.
6. After we have sufficiently tested the system and migrated a majority of students, we will begin to allow alumni to request accounts. We hope this will begin on or about October 15.
7. After we’ve got the alumni underway, we’ll finally be ready to take requests from faculty and staff for GAE accounts. We hope this will begin on or about November 15.

Faculty and staff already have the IRIS system, with strong enterprise calendar and email. We recognize that GAE may be useful for collaborating with students, so GAE account requests for faculty and staff will be honored after we’ve taken care of students and alumni. However, there are some data sensitivity and appropriate use concerns related to employee use of Google Apps for Education.  To address these concerns, we ask all faculty and staff to agree to a disclaimer, adopted from the University of Notre Dame, before accessing GAE.

ATTENTION: Check your Spam folder for NAU messages

Check your Spam folder regularly if you are using NAU Gmail:
We are working with Google to resolve a problem where some NAU email ends up in your GMail Spam folder; until we get the problem fixed we need you to check the Spam folder regularly and click on "Not spam" for NAU messages that are not spam.