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Migrating Faculty Web Pages to Google Sites
We need to migrate our personal web pages from a legacy system and are planning on using Google Sites. I am interested in the feedback from faculty for institutions that have already made a similar change.
1. Were there complaints? If so, what were the most common ones? How did you address them?
2. If there were initial complaints about the platform did these subside once the change was made?
3. What type of url are you using for faculty web sites? Are you able to mask the Google url?
Thanks,
Cheryl
Cheryl Tiahrt
Director of IT/Deputy CIO
The University of South Dakota
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With regards to #3, you can mask the Google URL with your own hostname. I haven't done this yet but plan on using it at some point. The Google documentation makes the process seem relatively simple as you make add a CNAME record in your DNS that has your hostname pointing to Google and then in Google Apps you map your hostname to a specific Site.
Here's the link
http://support.google.com/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99448
Also as Alan Crosswell warned on Friday there is a limit on the total amount of data that you can store in Google Sites and that's shared across all your users.The figure is 100Gb for your domain, taken from here:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=90917
As with Drive, attachments that are stored in native Google Drive format don't count towards the Sites quota storage so if your users are file-heavy, encouraging them to keep things in Google Drive format will definitely help.
Chris Gleeson
Manager, Messaging & Collaboration
Office of Smith IT
Robert H. Smith School of Business
3520L Van Munching Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-1815
301 541 8455 TEL
chris@rhsmith.umd.edu
http://smoogle.rhsmith.umd.edu
** Remember, the Office of Smith IT will never ask for your username and password in an email **
From: Adam Nave <nave@MACALESTER.EDU>
To: GOOGLEAPPS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU,
Date: 12/03/2012 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [GOOGLEAPPS] Migrating Faculty Web Pages to Google Sites
Sent by: The EDUCAUSE Google Apps Constituent Group Listserv <GOOGLEAPPS@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU>
We're also looking at this and would love to hear the results.
--Adam