G Suite GMail Display Names

[David44]

Is there anyway to change the display name in G Suite, i.e. the name that appears when a G Suite user emails someone? I see we have the option to make it either 'First, Last' or 'Last, First' but nothing else like First initial followed by surname. I suppose we could change the users first names to just their first initial but that seems a little hacky.

 

Has anyone found a way of doing this, so emails come from JSmith rather than Joan Smith? If not, has the fact that Teacher's first names are visible to students caused any issues?

[caffrey]

We haven't had issues, except for differentiation e.g. at first we couldn't discern a student from a teacher easily (even though our students surnames are capitalised) I helped solve this by changing the student user pictures to be the same, so at a glance it's easy to work out.

[Arthur]

at first we couldn't discern a student from a teacher easily

How would you differentiate between two members of staff with very similar names? e.g. Michelle Jones and Molly Jones (both Mrs and with the same middle initial)?

 

Do you also find e-mails get sent to the wrong recipient unintentionally (staff > staff or student > student)?

Edited October 9, 2018 by Arthur

[caffrey]

How would you differentiate between two members of staff with very similar names? e.g. Michelle Jones and Molly Jones (both Mrs and with the same middle initial)?

 

Do you also find e-mails get sent to the wrong recipient unintentionally (staff > staff or student > student)?

 

We're lucky that we don't have similar staff names (yet!) mistakes do happen, but that's down to not paying attention

 

We initially had issues with wrong recipient, but again this was down to lack of attention - student accounts are uppercase and have the school logo as their account image. You can stop them from changing that in the accounts panel and I just use GAM to upload the image.

 

I got in contact with Google a year or so about this, seeing if more data could be displayed on contact suggestion (e.g. add department) to no avail

[ADMaster]

I've noticed in the Google admin console a place to fill in title and department etc.

I've not filled it out for my users yet, but does that not display somewhere to end users?

[caffrey]

Only under the Contacts "App"