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.
 
to find out the email addresses for your class sections, just log on to
http://ithink.ou.edu.
 
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