Email Access
- Because you have signed up for an online course, you must treat your access
to email and the Internet as seriously as if you were doing your job
over email and the Internet. You'll need this access a minimum of three
times a week and likely for several hours at a time.
- You must use an individual email account, not shared with anyone else. ACC has recently started supplying all students with their own email accounts, which you are expected to use and the college will use to communicate with you. It is therefore really important that you check your ACC email address regularly. If you haven't already gotten your ACC email address and login information, you can go here for details on how to do that.
- If you email me from any other email address besides your ACC address, you need to be sure you enter that as an "Alternate Email Address" on the orientation form for my class. Otherwise, I may not see your message (it might get caught in my sam filter). I will add all ACC email addresses and any alternate email addresses you submit into the "white list" for my spam filter to be sure I receive your mail.
- When you send me email messages, your first and last name must
be included somewhere in the message and the subject line must include
your course number (MATH 1314 or MATD 0370, for example); it should also include some sort of summary of the problem
as well, perhaps something like:
MATD 0370: Need help with problem 7.
- If your email address quits working for any reason (you change Internet
providers or your email box gets full, for example) you must fix the
problem right away. If you need for me to use a different email address
for you, then email me right away from that new address and tell me
that. (Be sure to include your full name and the old address for reference.) You are responsible
for providing me with ongoing access to a working email address for
you and for checking those messages at least three times a week.
- If you don't get a message from me during the first week of class (after you have submitted the first orientation form), something is wrong
and you must find out what is going on right away. Also, if you email me and don't hear back from me within 2 or 3 days, you need to look into this as well. Please go here
for some possible problems that could cause this. (Notice that I only
promise quick responses during the semester; if you email me before
the beginning of the course, I will respond to you, but I may be on
vacation, so the responses may not necessarily be very prompt.)
- I will assume that whoever is reading your email has your permission
to be receiving information about your performance in the course. If
you don't want others reading that (I know I wouldn't) then don't give
them your password to your email account.