The College of Engineering is making use of UCSB Connect (https://connect.ucsb.edu) for mail services as of Summer of 2017 (From June 27-August 29).

The last migration change over happened August 29th, 2017 and we are now fully switched over to UCSB Connect (Google G Suite for Education)

ECI Connect Migration

All ECI Email accounts have moved to Connect - UCSB’s email and calendaring service powered by Google’s G Suite for Education. G Suite for Education is a collection of cloud computing productivity and collaboration software from Google. It includes Google's popular web applications such as Google GMail, Calendar, Drive, Hangouts, Docs and Sheets. G Suite provides a complete package of communication and collaboration tools suitable for any device.

Why did we migrate to Connect?

Ultimately it is a better user experience with additional functionality
Google has better spam and virus protection
It is protected by legal contract (see here for details) https://www.connect.ucsb.edu/privacy-security/uc-google-contract

No scanning of your data for ad generation and no ads are displayed
FERPA compliant
A large number of ECI accounts previously forwarded mail to external providers and do so generally without protection of a legal contract

Additional collaboration functionality and security (MFA is available)
Again, it has become the standard collaboration tool used across campus

Who migrated to Connect?

Everyone with an ECI account (migration coincided and was coordinated with the ECE Connect migration)

All departments and centers that ECI hosted mail for
Faculty, staff, and students

Mailing lists will eventually be migrated to Google Groups

CoE and Connect Accounts are not the Same

When you create a CoE account, you will by default, automatically get a Connect account if you do not already have one, or an engineering alias added to your Connect account if you already have one.

It is possible to close/expire a CoE account without losing access to Connect assuming you have aliases from a non-CoE source.

CoE accounts and Connect account will by default have the same username, but it is possible to pick different usernames and passwords.

Connect Related Documents

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