hello
everybody, if you have logged on to ithink.ou.edu today you've seen the new
email service - very exciting! IT has brought back a feature that used to be
available with the old coursenet system: there is now an email "address" for
your classes that you can use to send email to your class, just like you would
send email to any other email address. the class address is automatically
updated to reflect your current class enrollment.
I am not
100% sure, but one difference between this service and the old coursenet email
system is that you ONLY YOU can send email to this class address. this means,
for example, that you cannot cut-and-paste this address into a webform like the
ones at NYTimes or CNN to send an article to your class. if you want to do that,
you will need to send the NYTimes or CNN article to yourself first, and then
forward the email to your class.
also, while
you can combine course sections into a "combined section" in Blackboard, you
cannot do that for your course listings in iThink - but you can use your
own email address book to create a "group" where you put all the email addresses
you want together.
IT has been
working on this for a long time; it is really nice that they got it ready in
time for back-to-school.
Laura