Google Workspace – Quick Sign-in to Google Sites for Education

This used to be available, but has been discontinued:

Note: The previous Start Page service was a syndicated version of iGoogle; it allows you to set up a dynamic homepage (one start page layout per domain) for your users that brings together your content, Google services, and the best of the web. Starting on 3 December 2008, the Start Page is no longer included for new organizations that sign up for Google Apps.

(From: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=46798)

However, you can now make your own via Google Sites:

As a Google Apps administrator, you can create a Start Page for your users, using the Google Sites Start Page template. This page is your users' homepage, on which they can access their Google services and other content -- such as interactive gadgets and RSS feeds -- when they log in to their Google Apps accounts.their Google Apps accounts.

(From the tutorial: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=179916

Okay I had the same problems. Here's what you do.

Create a folder structure under your google apps docs account. For example

Admin Website Library Meetings WIP

Then select ONE folder by ticking the box next to that folder. Then edit the sharing settings and manually add one person in your domain and click "send this person an email"

Once they get the email, open the email and take the link from there. Give that link to everyone on your domain.

Now get everyone to click that link, it will open the folder. What you now need to do is favourite the folder by clicking the "star" that's next to the title.

That folder is now saved under their favourites in the google docs view.

Rinse and repeat.

Finally, make sure that you have configured your domain in the google apps management console such that documents are shared by default to everyone on the domain.

Good luck, let me know if you have problems. I searched for ages to get this working so I know your frustration