Not only will this lead to the creation of many derelict G+ and Gmail accounts, but people who are not interested in G+ and have not cared to educate themselves on it may be bothered by the notifications, circlings, and other features they didn’t ask for. It seems doubtful that this loophole will remain open for long. Some services haven’t yet updated their account creation pages, and at the moment you can use this URL to go straight to the old account creation screen. This forced-signup device smells of an attempt to boost G+ numbers, and is reminiscent not of the Google of yore, but of the Apple and Facebook of today. But is that really a step people should have to take if they just want to use Google Docs or YouTube? Certainly Google will say that this is all about the integration of services, but part of the attraction of Google services has always been how you can just use one or the other. On one hand, it’s harmless in a way: you create a throwaway email address and a dummy G+ account if you don’t want to use them. This doesn’t strike me as a user-friendly change.

Whereas before, all it took was an email address of any kind and some basic demographic data, now you are required to create both a Gmail account and a presence on Google+. After every account has been verified your students are now ready to use their Google log-ins to access Google's full suite of applications.Google appears to have made some changes to its account creation process. Once you create the student accounts you will still need to go to your own Gmail account and click on the link in each email to verify the account. How this works is simple! Gmails ignores anything in the first half of an email address after a plus sign so if you create each email with the format all emails will be sent to the inbox of You can use both text and numbers in the student names. mine is my name with the s missing from the end of waters.Įducators can use one Gmail account to set up student blogs or sign up for different online services using gmail’s support of plus addressing.

I recommend choosing a name that people can identify easily as being you e.g.

ability to easy search mail messages, threaded messages, built in chat. Gmail (or Google Mail) is Google’s free web email service with tons of storage space and lots of great features e.g. Using Your Gmail To Create Student Accounts

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