Ask new collaborators to activate their UW-Madison Google Apps account at doit.wisc.edu/googleapps. To share documents and websites, you can type someone's name rather than keeping track of preferred email addresses. This is an efficiency advantage for a system with thousands of collaborators.

UW-Madison Google Apps documents and websites can be handed along easily by name, again without managing personal email preferences, when owners or administrators change roles or leave the university.

UW-Madison Google Apps accounts are protected by UW-Madison's license with Google, which establishes intellectual property ownership.

The homepage uses a "page template" of "Announcements." On the homepage, click the gear icon and choose "Page Settings." Change to Announcements page template to Web Page.