Best Practices for using Google Services at Mount Holyoke

Overview

LITS recommends using the Chrome web browser when using MHC Google accounts, Google Workspace for Education (including GMail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, etc). Access MHC Google via your web browser. 

If you use using third-party applications or clients, such as Apple mail or Windows Mail/Outlook, iCal, etc to access your MHC Google Account, it can lead to unexpected results, including the risk of data loss, increased cybersecurity and phishing risk, and a degraded user experience

While you can still choose to use third-party mail clients or other apps with your MHC Gmail account, doing so is unsupported and is done at your discretion.  

LITS does not provide configuration assistance or additional support for using third-party apps/clients with MHC Google accounts. LITS is only able to troubleshoot Google support needs via Chrome. 

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