How do I use Groups for facilitating online discussion forums?
Google Groups is currently available only to Staff at Monash University. Students will not be able to access this functionality. However, staff can create a Google Group and invite students and non-Monash Google users to make use of this functionality and work collaboratively for things like online discussion forums, using Groups for inviting users in Calendar, access control for various Docs and Sites, etc. Once you have created a group, you will be able to add members to this group. If you’d like to use this Group for online discussion forums, please follow instructions for enabling the necessary settings. Students will be asked to enter their email address. They will then be redirected to the portal for login (which will be automatic, if they’re already logged in). If a user cannot log in, and receives an error message that says “This account cannot be accessed because the log in credentials could not be verified” – it means that the user has not been added to the Google Group. The
