Google Workspace for Education

You can activate the service by accepting the rules of use on an activation form. After filling the form, the service is ready to use in about two (2) hours.

Act this way:

1. Use Firefox,Chrome or Remote Desktop connection and open the activation form of the university. If asked, log in the form with the university account (=basic, short account!) and password.
2. After accepting the terms of use, click OK.
3. The service will be available in about two (2) hours.

Log in GWE service with your university user account (=long account!). Students: account@student.oulu.fi, staff: account@univ.yo.oulu.fi.

Access to use the service is valid as long as your university account is valid.

• However, please note that your Google's edu-account will only be generated upon implementation!

You can also log directly on Google's various services pages, e.g. at https://drive.google.com/.

• Use then your edu-account account@edu.oulu.fi. for login.

Google Workspace includes Gmail email and an organization-specific email address that is the same as your login (account@edu.oulu.fi).

• However, please remember that the email address of the O365 service is your official address of the university!

• Calendar
• Meet
• Chat
• Drive
• Docs
• Sheets
• Slides
• Forms
• Sites

More information: https://workspace.google.com/features/

The service is an external cloud service provided by Google.

Do not handle confidential or secret material in cloud services! This kind of information is, among other, medical records and other sensitive personal data. The prohibition also applies to Gmail.

The use of the service requires certain user information to be transferred to the use of the service provider. This includes the name, username and email address. The user’s password will only be stored on the university’s own servers.

According to the terms of use of the service Google may change the views and contents of the Google Workspace service according to its own politics without informing beforehand.

Become acquainted with terms of use:

• Google Workspace for Education Agreement: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/education_terms_ie.html
• Data Processing Amendment to Google Workspace and/or Complementary Product Agreement: https://www.google.com/intx/fi/work/apps/terms/dpa_terms.html
• Standard Contractual Clauses: https://www.google.com/intx/fi/work/apps/terms/mcc_terms.html
• The university's Terms of cloud service are obligating you. To read the terms of use, log in the with the short form of your university user account.

It is not possible for the University to offer support in the problem situations which are related to the service.

• Please use Google's support services instead.
• If you suspect that the services do not operate, you can monitor the status here.