Month of MigrationDecember is the month for migration for the York School Department. All of our email will be moved from our legacy email system, First Class, and migrated over to a web platform, Gmail, so that communication, collaboration and creativity becomes more streamlined with all of the other apps within the Google Apps for Education Suite.
Below is a quick timeline of migration scheduled; December 20th after 4:00pm - Incoming Mail will start to Redirect to Gmail December 26th - Old Mail from First Class will Migrate to Gmail January 1st - All new mail from News Conferences (i.e. YHS News) will now be directed to your Gmail Inbox January 1st - Any staff files, notes, etc. will be shared to the school's Intranet Site (a web page only accessible by staff members). January 1st - June 30th - First Class will still be accessible from your device. You can still login to see older mail, files and edit your First Class web page if you have one. July 1, 2014 - The First Class server will go offline and will no longer be accessible. All First Class and iWeb web pages will be terminated and must be recreated using another web builder (i.e. Google Sites, Weebly, Wix, etc.) Migration Steps for First Class 1. Download and Delete Files, Email, and Attachments During the month of December we ask that you please clean out any files, emails or large attachments from your Mailbox within First Class. Files larger than 25 MB will not migrate over to Gmail and may stall the process. You can delete these files or download them to save to your local device. 2. Remove Sub-Nested Folders within First Class Folders inside of folders (sub-nested folders) will also be problematic for the migration process and may not move all of your information over. We also ask that you please pull these sub-nested folders out of their parent folder so that they will migrate over to Gmail without an issue. After the migration, these folders (called labels in Gmail) can be reorganized in any way that you wish. 3. Export Contacts from First Class At any point during the month you can also export your contacts from First Class and import them into Gmail. You will not be able to receive email yet in Gmail, but you can start to see what it will look like and personalize themes, labels and your contact lists right now. 4. Import your Contacts into Gmail 5. Retrieving Personal Mail Lists from First Class Personal mail lists are not recognized as contacts in First Class. Therefore you will have to copy the email addresses within a Personal Mail List in First Class and then paste them to add the contact in Gmail and then recreate the mail list within Gmail. A member of the tech team will be around to visit with you face-to-face at some point during the month to make sure that you have everything that you need in place to be prepared for the migration. They will also offer some simple tips and tricks to setting up Google Chrome to better assist you with checking Gmail, Google Calendar and the School News Intranet site after the first of the year so that you feel comfortable with the transition. New Teacher ResourcesA Survival Guide to Teaching
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Winter Links for StudentsCreate a Snow SceneAdd your own snowman to this virtual winter wonderland to share with your friends and family.
Build Your Own SnowmanBuild your own virtual snowman (Flash Based) and share it with your friends and family via the online gallery.
SnowDaysMake a virtual snowflake only (Flash Based) and share it with your friends and family via the online gallery.
Tinker: Computer Programming
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