Editor’s Note: Recently we announced the winners of our global Gone Google ad contest. Today’s featured winner is Susan Zolezzi, Manager, Communications & Change at Monash University in Victoria, Australia. Google Apps for Education began with students in November 2009, and despite being an opt-in offer over summer break and the Christmas holiday, 40,000 students had migrated before their return for semester one! By July 2010 all students were on Google Apps and the old student mail service was retired. Between June 2010 and December 2010 we migrated over 20,000 staff from 3 systems, and to date we have seen excellent uptake and use of the new applications in addition to email. In comparison, our previous Monash email and calendar projects took years of project resources and budget and saw poor adoption.
As a Google Apps fanatic and Monash Uni student myself, this has been a wonderful move. The switch to Gmail alone over the archaic email system of last year has been a life saver!
ReplyDeleteRMIT started migrations in July this year! The productivity increases will be explosive because of increased storage capacity, simultaneous collaborations on assignments, in the classroom or remotely!
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