I do not like how you are not able to quickly search the dashboard for a user. I also don't like how created users are not in the contacts

yes i had assumed all users of a domain would automatically show up in contacts. they don't but if you start typing username

I have seen them show up in the list to choose from

do you have accounts for any students or groups of students?

at the top the search is for accounts...I just typed a name in and all the accounts with that 1st name came up....

we have accounts and groups of students. But I have not seen all names show up when I start to type names.

let me clarify myself....my frustration comes in the docs side of things. I am starting to think maybe the problem is that we don't use

gmail with our domain.

yes I understand what you mean in docs.I am learning more each day with this change to google apps..will probably never reach full potential