Google Support & Guidance
This activity contains support and guidance regarding your OCA email account and subsequent Google facilities, such as Google Mail, Google Drive and Google Meet.
Account Retention
For information regarding the retention of your OCA email account and subsequent access to OCA facilities, information and data, please refer to the Data Retention Schedule, available on the Our Policies page. Please note that upon completing your degree and losing access to your OCA email account, you'll no longer be able to access and sign into any subsequent OCA facility such as OCA Learn or OCA Spaces.
Retention & Migration
This following information and guidance is particularly applicable to students who have completed a unit and/or their degree and wish to retain and migrate their work outside of OCA facilities.
Emails and Google Drive
Students who have completed their degree and are looking to retain any emails and/or files stored on Google Drive can complete the Transfer Your Content process. Following this process, students can automatically migrate their emails and/or any files stored on Google Drive to an external and personal Google account. For more information on this process, please visit the following Google Support page. Alternatively, and particularly applicable to students who do not have an existing and do not wish to create a personal Google account, you may instead with to Download Your Data
OCA Learn
Information and data stored on OCA Learn cannot be retained or migrated elsewhere.
OCA Spaces
Students who have completed their unit and/or degree may wish to retain and migrate their learning log(s) elsewhere, and in such instance can follow the information and guidance provided in the Exporting & Importing sub-chapter of the OCA Spaces Support & Guidance section.
Padlet
Students who have completed their unit and/or degree may wish to retain and migrate any personal Padlet(s) to a personal Padlet account, and in such instance can follow the information and guidance provided in the Import & Exporting a Padlet sub-chapter of the Padlet Support & Guidance section.
Panopto
Students who have completed their unit and/or degree may wish to retain and migrate any personal recording(s) stored on Panopto, and in such instance can follow the information and guidance provided in the Downloading Media sub-chapter of the Panopto Support & Guidance section.