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Future changes to Google’s storage policy

Google recently announced a  (previously known as G Suite for Education). The current unlimited storage for educational institutions will end in July 2022.

As Â鶹´«Ã½ is a customer, this new policy will apply to ontariotechu.net faculty, staff and student accounts, and specifically, will result in changes to individual and collective data usage and storage capacity on Google Drive at the university.

As a result of this change, Information Technology (IT) Services will implement a cap on storage limits for all faculty, staff and student ontariotechu.net accounts in accordance with the university’s policy framework and subject to consultation.

In advance, IT Services asks all faculty, staff and students to review their current storage use and take steps to reduce data usage. Learn how you can reduce data usage and storage in .

More details regarding use, capacity and storage limits will be communicated in future Weekly Reports.

For more information, contact ask.IT@ontariotechu.ca.