Google Apps Benefits
Unlimited Storage
Google Apps users now have unlimited storage of documents, photos, email and files through Google Drive.
Accessible: Anytime, Anywhere
Access your content on Google Drive from anywhere with an internet connection: computers and mobile devices
SBU Branded E-mail
Email addresses follow this format: firstname.lastname@stonybrook.edu (common names will have some variation to this).
Offline Access
Enable Offline Access in Chrome or on your device and you can access your content even if you're offline in Gmail, Calendar and Google Drive.
Simplify Collaboration
Easily share and collaborate on documents, calendars, and websites through Google products and edit files collaboratively in real-time with Google Drive!
No More Updates
As a web service, Google Apps is automatically updated by Google. You will not have to worry about installing updates yourself.
Chat Your Way
Use text, voice and video chat with Google Hangouts. Need to share what you're seeing on your screen? Google Hangouts does that, too!
Group Management Tools
Create your own groups to simplify communication and collaboration. Request a Google Group, and then you can add and remove members and manage group settings.
Privacy and Security
Learn more about Google Privacy and Security
Related Services
Google Mail
Google Mail is the preferred email system at Stony Brook University for faculty, staff, and students on West Campus, Southampton, Manhattan, and select departments within the Health Sciences Center.
Members of Stony Brook Medicine, including Stony Brook Hospital and the School of Dental Medicine, will continue to use Microsoft Exchange for email due to HIPAA compliance requirements.
Google Drive
Google Drive provides a single place to store, create, sync, and share documents, files, and folders of all types. Access files anywhere - at your desk, from home, or on a mobile device.
Google Calendar
Google Calendar is the calendar feature offered with Google Apps for Education. It allows users to easily create, share, edit, and delete meeting invitations, calendar events, and tasks. These are easily accessed and synced between computers and mobile devices.
Google Meet (Web Conferencing)
Use Google Meet for video conference meetings and screen sharing with up 250* participants.
Google Chat
Google Chat is a collaborative messaging tool. It allows you to chat, share content, schedule meetings, and more in a shared space with your team or 1-to-1. And all of your teams can have their own spaces, called Rooms. You can even create external Rooms to collaborate with people outside Stony Brook. It works in desktop browsers and as Android and iOS apps. Starting in July 2020, Google Chat is in Gmail, too.
Google Sites
Google Sites is an online application that makes it easy to host personal websites, especially for people who need quick, up-to-date access, with limited or zero Web development expertise.
Google Contacts
Google Contacts stores and organizes contact information for those you communicate with and the Stony Brook Directory. Contacts can contain basic information-like names, email addresses, and phone numbers-or extended information, like physical addresses, employers, departments, job titles, or custom notes. Contacts sync with the other Google Apps (Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts) and mobile devices so you have easy access from anywhere.
Google Groups
Google Groups makes it easy for groups of people - such as project teams, departments, or classmates - to communicate and collaborate over topics of common interest. Request a Google Group for easy group email distribution.
Available Workshops
Staff/Faculty-focused Workshops
Click Events at the top of the page to see scheduled faculty/staff-focused DoIT events.
Browse Workshop Catalog
Browse DoIT's Workshop Catalog