![]() Though FirstClass will no longer be able to send or receive new emails, students and faculty will still be able to access their accounts and the older emails they hold.Īfter this, the IT department will migrate old emails over to Gmail, Kenner said. “When that happens, mail will not come into FirstClass anymore, and you also will not be able to mail out of FirstClass anymore,” he said. “Presumably after graduation, the need for mail is going to be lower,” he said.īy the end of June, the ability to send new emails should be completely moved over to Gmail. He expects this first step to be finished sometime after graduation and before the beginning of June, he said. The transition from FirstClass to Gmail will consist of two main steps: setting up Gmail accounts that receive and send out new emails, and moving old emails in FirstClass to the new platform, Kenner said. “Google made some changes to their licensing to give us more features and more control over Gmail, so it just made sense at this point to expand to the highest level of licensing and then to make the switch.” “It got solidified about two months ago, but we’ve been expecting to do this for several years.” This year, the school was finally able to make the switch, he said. “Gmail is the missing piece to tie it all together.” This transition has been in the works for a while, Kenner said. Since the school currently uses Google for so many purposes, moving over to Gmail was the natural decision, Kenner said. “In consultation with the members of our Administrative Council and legal counsel for HM, not to mention input from our Board of Trustees’ Technology Committee, the decision was made to begin the transition.” “Over the course of the past three years, we’ve watched FirstClass struggle with updates and, as such, the volume of our usage,” Kelly wrote. ![]() This transition will be led by the Director of Technology Dr. The school will transition from the FirstClass email server to Gmail this summer, Head of School Dr. ![]()
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