Gmail

Description

• Gmail is the official email provider for all NC State students, faculty and staff.
• The preferred browser for Gmail is Chrome.
• For general email topics; e.g., forwarding, official university email, see Email and Calendaring.

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Terms of Service

The general Google Terms of Service and the Google Apps Education Edition Agreement apply to this app.

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G Suite address

• Your NC State G Suite account uses your Unity email address; i.e.,
  unityid@ncsu.edu.
• Email sent to or from an email alias; i.e.,
  firstname_lastname@ncsu.edu,
  will reach its destination and an alias can also be used when scheduling in G Suite calendar or sharing documents.

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Email Basics

• Email Security
• Gmail Recommended Settings
• Email Alias
• Email Forwarding
• Attachments

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Contacts

• Finding the right contact
• Delegating your contacts
  

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Spam and viruses

• Minimizing Spam
• NC State Antivirus Resources

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Popular Gmail features

• Gmail on your mobile device
  • For easiest access, download the Gmail App from your mobile service provider.
  • Syncing between the Web and your devices.
    See What is Google Sync? to sync your mail, contacts, calendar and more and choose the Gmail link.
• Using Filters in Gmail
• How to set up Gmail delegation (YouTube video 2:34)
• Out of Office or Vacation Reply (Automated Reply, Vacation Responder).
  See also Create email templates – formerly Canned response.
• Gmail Confidential Mode announced – OIT News July 10, 2019.See Send & open confidential emails.

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Email groups

Faculty, staff and graduate students can receive email related to a particular topic or from a particular group and can send email to such a group. For details, see Groups.
See also: Generic Account

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Email Archiving

See Central Email Retention Services.

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Accessibility

• Assistive technology users may want to use one of the following:
  • the Basic HTML view of Gmail
  • their own email client (see Gmail’s Choose your IMAP email client settings for Gmail)
• See the Gmail section of Google’s accessibility Products and Features.

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Support links

• Gmail Help Center
• Gmail Help Community
• G Suite Learning Center: Gmail
• Google Training at NC State (REPORTER)
• Download your Data
• NC State IT Service Portal

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Student consent?

Before using this app to share student information, you may need to obtain your students’ consent as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). See FERPA Forms.

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Feedback?

Please give us your suggestions for G Suite @ NC State.

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