Many of us have several google accounts for different purposes. We all have our official UA google@alaska account. You might have a consumer account for personal or professional reasons, you might be tied to one of the school districts that uses Google for email and other Google applications. Your department or progam may have found it easier to have a shared account for department-related content that doesn’t belong to just one person. Clubs, organizations, testing or experimention, special events, in- ternational partnerships…there are many reasons to create and use a unique Google account.
There are many options for forwarding email into one email client, but how do you manage the other Google applica- tions like Calendar or YouTube? It can be frustrating and not very efficient to continue logging in and out of your multiple accounts. If you have multiple applications for one account open and you log out, it disrupts your workflow. So —how do you manage being able to use multiple accounts?

 

DEDICATED BROWSER

One quick and simple option is to have several browsers open and associate each with one of your Google accounts. You can have your UA account open in Chrome, your personal account open in Safari, and your department account open in Firefox. Most current operating systems and computers can manage having three browsers open, but it can slow things down and be a big battery drain. It can also be hard to manage three browsers on a small laptop —screen when you might want to switch between them.

CHROME USER ACCOUNTS

If you are using Chrome, you  can set up several different  user accounts. You can switch between your accounts in the same window, or you can open each user account in a different tab or window. A profile avatar in the upper right corner of your browser window reminds you which account you’re in. It would be great if you were able to pull in your profile picture associated with your Google profile, but I expect the resolution would be so small the image might not be distinguishable from one account to the other. This is also a good way to set up browser specifications for different users if you want to supervise their web activities
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