setting up a class of students with their own gmail account

capn.snapppy · 01-14-2009, 05:15 AM

forgive me if this topic has already been covered in the past, i searched but was unable to find an answer.

i am a public school teacher and would like my students to have their own gmail accounts, so that we can share documents and use knol, sites, blogger, etc. upon leading the class through the sign-up procedure, once they began to submit their registration, the entire class received a fail error. i'm sure this is due to google's ip tracking and spam protections.

does anyone know a way around this so my 30 students can have gmail?

aimhigh · 01-14-2009, 05:37 AM

Try to disable your IP address so that google won't trace yoiur IP address.

capn.snapppy · 01-14-2009, 11:24 AM

thanks aimhigh

do you have a suggestion for how i could do that? my network is connected to all of the rest of the nyc public schools and i am not the administrator. all proxy blocking sites are blocked within the school. any other suggestions?

thanks!

dualsub2006 · 01-15-2009, 04:14 PM

There is no way you are going to be able to set up that many Gmail accounts from the same IP address. Aside from setting them up, you will have further issues down the road if 30 kids all try to access a different Gmail account from the same IP address as well.

vik88 · 01-19-2009, 02:05 AM

thank you for good information! =)

ChadWhittaker · 01-20-2009, 02:58 AM

hi,

There is no way you are going to be able to set up that many Gmail accounts from the same IP address. Aside from setting them up, you will have further issues down the road if 30 kids all try to access a different Gmail account from the same IP address as well.

mvip · 01-22-2009, 09:45 PM

Ok, here's a possible solution for you, assuming you're willing to spend ~$10 and got some technical skills.

Go to GoDaddy (or your provider of choice) and buy a domain name for the class
Set up Google Apps to work with the domain (it's free)
Create email accounts for all the students in the class

In addition to solving the problem with creating the user accounts, this will also open administrative doors when it comes to other Google Apps.

Good luck.

01-14-2009, 05:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
capn.snapppy Noogle Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	setting up a class of students with their own gmail account forgive me if this topic has already been covered in the past, i searched but was unable to find an answer. i am a public school teacher and would like my students to have their own gmail accounts, so that we can share documents and use knol, sites, blogger, etc. upon leading the class through the sign-up procedure, once they began to submit their registration, the entire class received a fail error. i'm sure this is due to google's ip tracking and spam protections. does anyone know a way around this so my 30 students can have gmail?

01-20-2009, 02:58 AM	#6 (permalink)
ChadWhittaker Noogle Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	setting up a class of students with their own gmail account hi, There is no way you are going to be able to set up that many Gmail accounts from the same IP address. Aside from setting them up, you will have further issues down the road if 30 kids all try to access a different Gmail account from the same IP address as well.

01-22-2009, 09:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
mvip Googler Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 69 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Ok, here's a possible solution for you, assuming you're willing to spend ~$10 and got some technical skills. Go to GoDaddy (or your provider of choice) and buy a domain name for the class Set up Google Apps to work with the domain (it's free) Create email accounts for all the students in the class In addition to solving the problem with creating the user accounts, this will also open administrative doors when it comes to other Google Apps. Good luck.

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01-14-2009, 05:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
aimhigh Senior Googler Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: RP Posts: 222 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 6 Posts	Try to disable your IP address so that google won't trace yoiur IP address.

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capn.snapppy Noogle Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	thanks aimhigh do you have a suggestion for how i could do that? my network is connected to all of the rest of the nyc public schools and i am not the administrator. all proxy blocking sites are blocked within the school. any other suggestions? thanks!

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dualsub2006 Senior Googler Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 116 Thanks: 0 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts	There is no way you are going to be able to set up that many Gmail accounts from the same IP address. Aside from setting them up, you will have further issues down the road if 30 kids all try to access a different Gmail account from the same IP address as well.

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vik88 Senior Googler Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 134 Thanks: 1 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	thank you for good information! =)

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