"More" google services - making them easily accessible?

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Permalink Reply by Bill Campbell on March 21, 2011 at 1:24pm

For our Apps for Edu domain, they do all appear under the "even more" option, which is under More.  Pretty much all of Google's services appear there.  If you want to steer users to particular Google services that you recommend, you might consider a creating a custom web page (you could use Sites) that links off to those services.  Unfortunately, I'm not aware of  a way to add a custom link to that universal navigation menu.  (That would be a nice feature.)  However, if you have a school website that many people navigate through to get to places, you could put the link to your custom "Google Services Home Page" there.

Permalink Reply by Allison Hart on March 24, 2011 at 5:18am

Thanks for your reply - as you can see,  I can only access the "core" apps, as well as the ones we have added from the marketplace... just to clarify before I submit a support ticket to google - you see other things, like Picasa (or reader, blogger, etc) in that same menu?  

I also see More - even more>>  but that just brings you to this page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/  which has search options and some other services... what I WANT is more like what you get on the Account settings page which has a "my products" section and looks like this:

I know I can basically recreate this page somewhere for my users with little icons and links, but I don't think I should have to - it should just work like this, don't you think??

 

 

 

 

Permalink Reply by Bill Campbell on March 24, 2011 at 7:40am

The link page accessed by "even more" (http://www.google.com/intl/en/options) does give you a link to the other Google services you can login to using the new accounts infrastructure.  Picasa, Blogger, Reader are in the second column under "Communicate, show & share".  The new infrastructure allows an Apps for Education account to access any Google service if the system administrator has not disabled access using the control panel.  The marketplace is just used to add non-Google services.

 

I agree that it would be nice if the system administrator could pick the services that show on the main menu or the "more" menu option but that does not seem to be the case so "even more" is what I suggest training users to look for when trying to get to other services. 

 

From your screen shot, I guess the Marketplace shows up under more?  We haven't added any user apps from the Marketplace yet (although I've been thinking about Engrade).