What's New?

Starting this week, Google will introduce two new security warnings in Gmail to help you keep your email safer.

Google Forms makes it easy to create, distribute, and analyze surveys. Starting today, you can craft even more effective forms by inserting images into survey questions or adding images as multiple choice or checkbox options in Forms on the web.

For example, a graphic designer might ask a business owner to to pick one of three different logos, pictures of which would be offered as multiple choice answers.

It's easy to migrate your mailing lists from CalMail to bConnected Lists!

Need in-person support? Drop-by an upcoming user support session:

The bConnected team is currently seeking owners for over 700 unowned CalMail mailing lists. We have begun an outreach campaign to list moderators, administrators and/or list subscribers whose lists are actively being used but are missing an owner. Lists without owners are at risk for deletion when we retire the CalMail mailing list service at the end of year. 

Campus bMail users, including alumni addresses, are continuing to receive Ransomware messages in their spam folders, which contain virus-laden attachments. If you received a “spoofed” message in your spam folder that appears to be sent from an @berkeley.edu address (even from your own address), but that you do not recognize, do not click on the attachment. Messages appear to contain scanned images, or pictures but are actually viruses.

We have received reports from multiple bMail users who received messages earlier this morning from Mail Delivery Subsystem which stated messages sent from them had been rejected for potential security issues.

If you received such a message, simply delete it. Your account has not been hacked. The original message was forged, and did not come from your account. Since the original contained a virus, Google is rejecting it and sending the mailer-daemon to you.

Update: Google has recommended that you refresh your browser if you are experiencing this issue. 

Effective June 16, 2016, Google has disabled support for two security systems called SSLv3 and RC4 support at Google's SMTP servers, IMAP/POP clients, and on Gmail's web servers for the following reasons:

The latest versions of the Google Docs and Sheets apps for Android and iOS devices include the following new features:

The bConnected team has identified an issue that is preventing newly created bConnected Google accounts from receiving mail until 24-48 hours after the account is created. We are working with Google and expect to have this resolved over the next two days. Until then, new account holders can send mail but will not receive messages until the 24-48 hours have passed.

Incoming students may continue to claim their Google accounts:

In the past year, Google has made some changes to the Google bar that is displayed across the top of most Google apps. For instance, if a user has a picture associated with their account, they’ll see that picture in the Google bar; if they don’t have a picture, they’ll see their initial.

Last year, Google launched Reminders in the Google Calendar app for iOS and Android. Now Reminders are coming to Google Calendar on the web.

Better engage your audience by allowing them to submit questions and vote on them during Google Slides presentations. To see the feature in action, check out this video in which Google Science Fair winner Shree Bose fields questions from a group of 200 middle school students.

A few things to note: