Google Apps at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) - History

All of the core apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Docs, Contacts, and Mobile, are included with Google Apps at Toronto Metropolitan University. Google Groups were made available summer, 2014, and can be requested by faculty and staff.  

Additional apps like Google Sites will become available later. Apps like Google+, Picasa, and Blogger that are not covered by TMU's agreement with Google may be made available in the future after a privacy and security evaluation.

You can find more information about privacy and security here.

NOTE: Google Chat and Voice are great collaboration tools that we intended to provide to the University as part of Google Apps at TMU. While testing Google Apps we discovered that we could not provide an adequate level of privacy by default in Google Chat. As a result Google Chat, and therefore Google Voice, are not currently available as part of Google Apps at TMU. More...

TMU went live with Google Apps on October 9, 2012. Everyone with an active account at TMU now has access to Google Apps at TMU including Google Calendar and Google Drive.

From Friday, October 5 through Sunday, October 7 we created 138,830 new Google Apps at TMU accounts and moved 19,266 people’s email to their TMU Gmail account.

Students and Faculty who did not provide an opt-in preference prior to the ‘Go-Live’ date can still opt into Gmail by clicking the "I want TMU Gmail" button on the prompt that is displayed when you log into https://my.torontomu.ca.

Students and Faculty who chose not to opt-in prior to the ‘Go-Live’ date can still opt-in to use Gmail by completing the following:

1. Log in to the my.torontomu portal with your my.torontomu user name and password.
2. Under the 'Self Service' module, select Personal Account.
3. Under 'Preferences' section, select Opt Into TMU Gmail.

When you opt-in, you will immediately be switched from RMail to Gmail. All new email will go to your Gmail account.

Migration of your old emails will start no later than 10 PM the same day. Google only allows us to copy one email message per second per person.

It will take longer for us to copy your mail if you have a very large number of email messages.

• Email: help@torontomu.ca
• Phone: 416-979-5000 Students: ext. 556840, Facutly & Staff: ext. 556806

For information about Google and Accessibility visit http://www.google.com/accessibility/ (external link) . More information on TMU's accessibility initiatives will be available soon.