FirstClass retirement update
The project to retire the FirstClass email/conferencing system on May 24, 2018 continues to progress and is on schedule.
The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) and members of the FirstClass retirement project team are meeting with faculty, departments, and organizations to assist them with the transition to alternative solutions for FirstClass conferences and to migrate FirstClass email to Gmail.
New UMaine MyCampus Portal announcement and community bulletin boards that replace FirstClass boards are open. Information about the boards is online.
Tips on what you should do now:
- If you are using FirstClass as your primary email account, you should transition to Gmail. Gmail training materials are available to help.
- If you subscribe to listservs and use your FirstClass address for those lists, you will want to change your email address with the listserv provider. You also will want to change your email address with online services.
- If you are a faculty member who needs assistance transitioning from FirstClass course conferences to an alternative course delivery solution, contact CITL at citl@maine.edu, 581.3333.
- If you have website content at an address beginning with www.umit.maine.edu, this content should be moved before the FirstClass system is retired.
Questions and comments can be sent to fc-migration-questions-group@maine.edu.