For information relating to the retention of your OCA Email Account, access to OCA-managed facilities and your data, please refer to the Data Retention Schedule, available under the 'Data Protection Policies' heading on the Our Policies Page.
Please note that after completing your studies with OCA and losing access to your OCA Email Account, you'll no longer be able to sign into any OCA-managed facility, such as OCA Learn and OCA Spaces.
Retention & Migration
The guidance below is applicable to students who have completed a unit and / or a degree and wish to migrate their work outside of OCA-managed facilities. You will need to ensure that you complete migration prior to losing access to your OCA Email Account.
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Email (Gmail) and Google Drive
- If you have a personal Google Account and wish to retain emails from Gmail and / or files that you have stored using Google Drive, you can complete the Transfer Your Content process. The content transfer will automatically migrate emails and / or files to an alternative Google Account. For more information, please see the Google Support Page.
- If you don't have a personal Google Account and would prefer not to create one, you may instead Download Your Data.
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OCA Learn
- Data stored on OCA Learn can't be retained or migrated elsewhere.
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OCA Spaces
- Please note that you will no longer have access to edit / save content from your learning log after losing access to your OCA Email Account. If you would like to migrate your learning log content elsewhere, please see the How can I export and / or import my learning log? article for further guidance.
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Padlet
- To migrate any Padlets you have created, please see the How can I import and / or export my Padlet(s)? article for further guidance.
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Panopto
- If you wish to retain any media stored on Panopto, please see the How do I download media from Panopto? article for further guidance.