17 Nov 2020
While a student is enrolled in a NSW Public School, they are allocated user credentials that provide them with access to email, student portal, Google G Suite, Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud. They can access these services for free, both while at school and from home - or anywhere else. BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY LEAVE? Students need to be informed that from the date they leave a NSW Public School - i.e. when the school has marked them as a Leaver in ERN - they have 180 days before they lose access to:
- Their school email account (GMail)
- Their Google Drive contents
- Any Google Classrooms they were joined to
- Their Microsoft OneDrive contents
- Any Microsoft Teams they were a member of
- Their access to Adobe Creative Cloud
So from the time that they leave, they have 180 days to check all their content/files in these school-provided services and download anything that they need to keep. There is no need to delete what they do not wish to keep. Anything left in their cloud repositories after the 180 days will no longer be accessible to them.