Go to Manage this Domain Dashboard select the "Oraganization & Users" Tab
Put all of your students in an OU then select the "Services" tab and turn
off email.



On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:27 PM, McKay, Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I guess you would say we’re in the same boat.  You can block
> www.gmail.com, but if they go to www.google.com and click mail in the
> upper left they’re taken to mail.google.com which is what is required for
> google apps to work.
>
>
>
> Curtis McKay
>
> Network Administrator
>
> Belleville Township High School District 201
>
> [email protected]
>
>
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:
> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Michael Bendorf
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:30 PM
> *To:* Tech-Geeks Mailing List
> *Subject:* [tech-geeks] Google Apps for Education but not Gmail
>
>
>
> Is anyone allowing students to access Google Apps for Education but
> not personal Gmail accounts?
>
>
>
>
>
> Last year we blocked  student access to personal email accounts and told
> them to use the district provided postfix/roundcube email provided.
>
> This year we are doing GA4E but I still want to block access to generic
> gmail. I was just told by our content filtering vendor:
>
>
>
> "This will not work.  All authentication from google, whether it be gmail,
> Google Apps or Google hosted email is all done from https://www.google.com.
>  We can only read the headers of https packets since we are not acting as
> the man in the middle for https packets.  You can either block it all or
> none.  Google by default is going to forward your email to
> https://mail.google.com/a/<domain><https://mail.google.com/a/%3cdomain%3e> and
> normal gmail email goes to https://mail.google.com/ so it's not possible
> to differentiate unless we break apart the https packet and be act as the
> man in the middle."
>
>
>
> I now wonder if any GA4E schools have had concerns about students using
> personal/private gmail accounts and what has come of it.
>
>
> --Michael T. Bendorf--
> Technology Administrator
> A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262
> 217.476.3312 ext. 2019
> DID #: 217.476.6019
> Cellular: 217.306.6824
>
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> your lectures so that I do not need you any more."
>
> A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for
> others.
>
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> using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
>
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