Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Students doing what they are supposed to? Now there is an assumption

In class today Ms. Serensky mentioned her fear, which I believe to be correct, that we refuse to check our school email accounts. Why? Because they are obnoxious, pointless, and most importantly not the email that we have been checking for the last several years. Below is a simple guide to make your account forward emails to whatever account you do check. Now whether or not you follow this list is your choice, but if you fail to do so, do not come complaining to me when you do not receive Ms. Serensky's next email about what to do for homework.
  1. Sign on to your chagrin email account, if you are like me and have never actually logged on to it you may find it helpful to know that the email is styled as such chaseplante.11@chagrinstudents.org and the password is your lunch code.
  2. Click on the settings link, this is located in the upper right hand corner of the window
  3. Click on the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP" tab
  4. Click the "Add a forwarding address" button in the Forwarding Section
  5. Type in your main email address, preferably one you check regularly, click next, click ok
  6. Now go to that address in a separate window, it should have received an email with a confirmation code in it
  7. Type that code into the confirmation code box on the window with the forwarding section and click verify
  8. Now check the circle next to the option that says "Forward a copy of incoming mail to [insert your email entered above here] and you cand ecide whether you still want emails saved in the school account in the next drop box
  9. These Next Two Steps Are Essential!
  10. Click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the window
  11. Send a test email to the school account and make sure it is received in your other account, if it fails to do so then try again or hunt me down in the halls and force me to help you in the library
I will not be held responsible if you do not receive Ms. Serensky's emails, if you followed the above steps correctly then everything will work correctly, if for some reason they do not you should find me and ask for help. Do not, I repeat do not blame me if this does not work and you did not ask for help.

1 comment:

  1. When I first set up my student account I thought I set it to forward emails to my regular account, but for some reason it never worked. Of course I assumed this was the computer's fault, thanks to your post I have discovered that the poor computer had nothing to do with it and it was my own fault because I forgot to "save changes." I must admit I feel a little foolish, after nearly three semesters of AP English I should be smart enough to press save. But now that I have fixed the problem I only have to check one email so I guess that is worth realizing I am not as clever as I thought I was.

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