Handling email:

Student email: Every semester I have to remind students of how to set up their ACC student email account. I collected all the information sent out when this was first implemented and made links to it so I can just send the students this one link.

Faculty and staff email: I was frustrated with the limited capacity that ACC provides for webmail. Now I use the Google system to handle and store all of my ACC email and the return address is still my ACC email address.

Tools for ACC online tasks

These are applications to help faculty members do various tasks with our electronic information.

1. Make a Class Roster that you can put into a spreadsheet first and then, if needed, to a word-processing program. Also generates a list of email links you can just click on to send a message through your default email program.

Open ACC Online and the Roster application at the same time.

It is also possible to use Blackboard to do this.

2. Take the online course schedule and use the CourseSchedule application to put it into a spreadsheet easily.
Brief instructions: Open a particular department's online schedule page and the application page. They can be in the same window or different windows. Copy the information from ACC's online schedule page, paste it into the blank window in the application, choose the button to extract the information, and then copy and paste the resulting information into a spreadsheet.
Schedule detailed instructions

These tools were developed by Hunter Ellinger so that I could more easily use the electronic materials provided by ACC. We are happy to share them with you.

Other Interesting Things

"It's Only a Math Test" pdf | doc

When I was talking about my students' comments in the week before finals and about what we discuss in the General Ed/Core Curriculum Committee, Hunter got inspired to write this. If you like it, feel free to use it in whatever way you wish.