Help for New Employees

Get a Google Apps account

This is something that will probably be done for you, but if it's not, here are the steps to do it.

Use Google Mail to create an event in Google Calendar

You can create an event on your Google Calendar that uses the title and recipients list from your Gmail message. Simply open the message, click Create an event in the More menu, and then fill in the date and time. If you need more detailed instructions, here are the steps.

Use Google Mail to create a Google Document

There's a lab to enable that will add a Create a document option to the More menu when a message is open. Once that's enabled, open an email message, click Create a document in the More menu, and Google will create a document - the title will be that of the email and the content will be what's in the body of the email. If you need more detailed instructions, here are the steps.

Use Google Mail to create a Google Task (GQueues is another option)

If an email contains something that should go on your To-Do list, there's an easy way to add it to either your Google Task list or your GQueues tasks. Here are the steps.

Not familiar with GQueues? Read about it here.

Create a new Calendar for a special project

Use a Form to survey collaborators about some aspect of a project

Create a Google Site to advertise and organize project

Resources

Google Apps Help Center

The primary page for help with anything Google: Help Center.

IT help Desk

If you have questions that aren't answered in the individual help centers, contact the helpdesk.

Google User Group

We have established a Google Users Group (GUG).  The primary focus will be communicating new features via email and occasional brown bags.  Anyone will be able to opt in or opt out as they desire.  If you'd like to join our group please click here to subscribe.

IT Events Calendar

(Note: This is an example of a Google calendar that has been "embedded" in a wiki page)

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