Collaboration Tools for Education
For purposes of security and privacy, University policy requires all CSU East Bay employees (including student assistants) to:
- Use your CSU East Bay email for all university business – for both sending and receiving.
- Use your University email for communication in all business systems, including those that do not require NetID authentication.
- List your University email in the , , on your syllabus, etc.
- you may have set up that sends your University email to a non-University email address.
If you have both student and employee accounts, your options to access them both are:
- Logout of one before logging into the other.
- After logging into one account, open a different browser to login to the other account.
- After logging into one account, open a private or incognito session in the same browser to login to the other account.
What is Google Workspace?
Google Workspace is an integrated communication and collaboration solution that includes:
- GMail - Email storage and search tools that help you find information fast and perform instant messaging from right inside your accounts using Google Chat.
- Google Calendar - Organize your schedules and share events and calendars with others.
- Google Chat - Send instant messages to your contacts for free anytime, anywhere in the world.
- Google Docs - Collaborate in real-time on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
- Google Sites - Work together to keep related documents, web content and other information in one place, on one site.
Contact the Service Desk
- Phone: 510-885-4357(510-885-HELP)
- Email: servicedesk@csueastbay.edu
- Website: