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PHOENIX August 21, 2009 –
All students attending a Maricopa Community College now have access to a new Google-powered e-mail system which also gives them access to online tools enabling them to do their school work more conveniently. The system is now the official way to receive communications from the students' colleges and the Maricopa County Community College District. The system provides each student with an address at maricopa.edu as well as a number of significant benefits, including:*Useful collaboration tools such as Google Docs, an online suite of office productivity applications featuring word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Google Docs allows collaboration with others on the same documents in real time. Documents are saved online, so you always have access no matter what computer you use.
*A lifetime email address, a reliable, secure email service, and a powerful anti-spam service;
*Access to calendaring, tasks and scheduling features; and
*Instant messaging with voice and video.
To gain access to their new e-mail accounts, students must navigate to www.maricopa.edu/google and follow the instructions. District faculty and employees will continue to use the current e-mail system.
"Offering this system to students at no additional cost means that our district has an exciting way to reach all students with official communications", said Darrel Huish, Vice Chancellor of information Technologies. "Our organization will be able to communicate more efficiently and students will know that there is one place where they can receive the important messages their college sends them".
The new system is set up for convenience. Students use their already familiar college identification number, called an "MEID", and their existing password. That means a student who has "XXXX" as an MEID, for example, would have an address of "XXXX@Maricopa.edu". New students enrolling in courses must sign up for a MEID, at which time they will automatically be given a corresponding address in the new email system.
