The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) has increased UMail quotas for the campus community. Faculty and staff now have 2 GB of storage, graduate students have 1 GB, and undergraduates have 500 MB. Quotas for subsidiary and NENS (non-employee, non-student) accounts were also increased to 1 GB. This announcement comes as OIT completes significant improvements to…
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Start of Semester Tip: Create Class Email Lists in SPIRE
Creating a class email list can be a simple way to keep your students up-to-date with announcements on course events. Instructors can use SPIRE to create, refresh, and delete class email lists. This will generate a single email address that lets you email all the students enrolled in the course at once. More information at: http://www.oit.umass.edu/spire/for_instructors/class_information/mailing_list.html Tip: Your…
Letting Students Know “How” to EMail You
Teaching any large course inevitably creates an influx of email. Sorting through those messages takes much longer when students don’t provide complete information. Consider sharing some of email these tips with your own students, inspired by Professor Michael Leddy’s guidelines you can find here.) Use your official University email address. This can make determining who you are significantly easier to…
Tips for Managing Email: Staying under Quota
The added challenge of keeping up with email is not just keeping up with the never-ending stream of information but also keeping your email safely under your quota such that you can continue to receive email. Keeping your inbox under control can be more than just keeping your email working, but keeping your inbox free of clutter makes…
Tips for Managing Email: Keeping Up
Keeping up with email is one of the demons of the modern world. I’ve seen enough faculty check their UMass email to see that most folks have thousands of messages in their inboxes with possibly hundreds of unread messages. Most faculty have many other things that keep them pretty busy (read: teaching and research) is…
TIP: Subscribe to RSS Feeds via Email
Once you get interested in following specific news sites or blogs (such as this one), it takes extra time and attention to remember to check in to look for new posts. RSS allows you to subscribe to the site and receive updates as soon as they are posted (which is great if you follow many…