Create a Wake Forest Baptist Health Student Network

I use gmail/google drive to access and share presentations and other files that are too large to send through my wake email. Some data analysis can only be done on lab computers but I also need access to these files when I work from home. I don't have a personal computer at home to access gmail/google drive another way

5 years ago Featured

I need to be able to save documents from my hospital issued computer on a drive that I can access from my phone to print. Since we cannot connect our hospital computers to our home wireless printers, I need a neutral place to save files and print from another device. This block makes working from home that much more impossible!

5 years ago Featured

I use gsuite daily for my Virginia Tech @vt.edu email and google drive in order to collaborate with faculty, students, and staff at Virginia Tech. Removal of gsuite access will prevent me from working efficiently

The current wakehealth email based on outlook is so lagging behind. Sending large files, like manuscript with figures, to colleagues is difficult and will quickly take up all the mailbox capacity. If cannot access personal emails, sharing file in the team will be very inefficient. We are in the second decade of 21st century, but forced to use such a outdated email system and prohibited to use other efficient emails. It's ridiculous.

I use google drive and google photos to share lab content and collaborate with other labs at OSU.

While the decision to restrict access to gmail and google drive assists in mitigating cybersecurity risk, it has hindered my ability to work more from home during Covid, as well as access research data across multiple computers, particularly since internal network drives have extremely limited capacities.

Working on and finishing my thesis has been made particularly difficult without access to Gmail/Google Drive, especially considering 1) the number of files, images, and data I need access to on a frequent basis, 2) the extremely limited inbox storage and file attachment size in Outlook (given the large file sizes I'm working with), 3) we are not allowed to use USB drives or the like to transfer files unless they are specialized/encrypted, and 4) the tedious two-factor authentication process to access my emails/files outside the hospital network. I strongly support either allowing us students to use Gmail and Google Drive, or creating a separate network where we can use these services. Most of us students aren't working with sensitive, hospital-grade patient data, so why make it difficult for us to get our work done? This is all on top of the fact that BME students and those taking classes at the undergraduate campus have—and need access to—Gmail for important communications.

5 years ago Featured

We use gmail/google drive to move files between computers to get them off of the networked computers without use of an encrypted drive which our 3D printers cannot read. The loss of access to this sharing is an annoyance at best and a detrimental set back at worst.

Hell yeah

5 years ago Featured

Rather than blocking access to email, why not provide additional education modules on the attack vectors for ransomware. It's more than just email phishing - it's removable media that transfers data between hospital machines and potentially compromised personal machines, malicious code on compromised websites, and remote desktop.

The ban on gmail and google drive has significantly affected my ability to continue productive work from home as well as access documents from classes and online resources

this ban has affected my ability to work from home as I use my gmail and google drive collaborate with my mentor and past lab members on editing manuscripts. I also use my gmail to network and apply for postdoc positions as gaining remote access to my wake email is not easy and my wake email fills very easily. I also use google drive to share large data sets with others, organize my papers, dissertation, and other writings

I am also an Adjunct professor and this prevents me from reading/responding to wfu emails.

can't work on manuscripts at work anymore.

This ban has adversely affected my ability to collaborate and communicate with colleagues.

Access to manuscripts and presentations have been impacted

I have a Reynolda campus ([email protected]) email account that I require to complete my work as a PhD student and this @wfu.edu has been blocked since the ban began.

I very often use both google drive and gmail to share and organize protocols, articles, and experimental data. Access to these functions is particularly important for large data sets that cannot be shared through the Wake health email. I do not have a second computer at home and thus have been incredibly limited by this ban.

5 years ago Featured

This ban has prevented me from accessing communication with professionals in the field I am seeking employment in. As well I can no longer access my volunteer emails through red cross.

The loss of gmail and especially google drive has challenged my productivity and ability to collaborate and network with others, both within and beyond our institution. We hold many informal laboratory and study related materials, publications, lab duty sign-ups, and shared communications on google drive. We also use this as a common platform to communicate within the laboratory we work with to add shared papers and work on manuscripts and papers together. I was also using this platform to write a book chapter with a collaborative team from Texas, Connecticut, Rochester, and San Francisco. Without the shared drive my collaborators now have to download the document we are working on, save on another platform, send in an approved email, and often have that email rejected because of limits on attachment sizes. This has resulted in major losses of productivity. We have many, MANY, hours lost to duplicating information, sifting through emails, missing communications for lab - especially important because we are trying to respect distancing and have to limit in person time - and virtual meet-ups, etc. It is not possible to get those hours back. Please make this platform available again.