Archiving school communication

…When it comes to cleaning up your inbox, it's pretty easy…to be tempted to just delete the emails that you don't want.…Or delete the emails that you've already read.…But as educators, you never know when you need to pull up an…email from a student or from a parent, or even from a principal.…Several times in my career, there's been times a student…has said to me, well I put that in an email.…And if I don't have a record of that email, then there's no way…for me to go back and tell the student, no here's exactly what was said.…So it's really important that we find a system that allows us to access…all of our emails.…When you're in your inbox and you want…to delete something, most people are tempted to…click on the box next to each email And then come right up to the Trash button.…

When you send something to the trash, even though you might be able to…still search and access that email, it now has a limited expiration date on it.…The administrators at Google Apps for Education have the ability…to set how long they want to hold deleted emails for.…