Irvine Valley College
Administration of Justice
Colin McCaughey
Email Forwarding
All of my courses (both online and in the classroom)
utilize the Blackboard
website to enhance the delivery of the course and dissemination of
course-related information. You will
find a wealth of information related to your class within the Blackboard site,
including the Syllabus, PowerPoint handouts, quizzes, and external links that
expand and enhance course topics.
The Blackboard
website is my primary mode for corresponding with the students when we are not
in the classroom. During a semester,
there may be times when I have to cancel a class on short notice prior to our
scheduled class. I attempt to give my
students as much notice as possible, as I know your time could be better spent
reading, studying, or working instead of coming to campus to read a sign that
states that class is cancelled. While
many students actually rejoice at this announcement, wouldn’t it be even better
if you could have stayed in bed a little longer or stopped at the coffee shop
instead of showing up to a sign on an empty classroom door??
I have tried to
solve this problem with the use of Blackboard.
As soon as I know a class will be cancelled, I post an announcement on
the Blackboard course website and also send out an email to all the registered
students in the class. One problem with
Blackboard is that it will only recognize IVC issued email addresses. Since most students have an established email
address that they regularly use, they rarely check their IVC email account. Well, if you don’t check your IVC email, you
will never know that a class has been cancelled, or receive that important
announcement related to the class. The
most efficient way to solve this problem of not receiving IVC email is to
automatically forward your IVC email to your email account that you check on a
regular basis.
Below is a quick
tutorial on how to forward your IVC email to your favorite email account. Some students have already completed this
process either in previous courses or through MySite registration. You
only need to complete this process once, unless you change email accounts.
How
to Forward your IVC Email.
How
do I forward my existing mail to another email account?
1.
After
you sign in to your account through either MySite or directly from Outlook.com,
click Options, then click Organize E-Mail, and then click Inbox
Rules.
2.
On
the Inbox Rules tab, click New.
3.
Under
When the message arrives, select Apply
to all messages.
4.
Under
Do the following, select Redirect the
message to.
5.
Select
the address you want your mail sent to by double-clicking on it in the address
book view. If the address you want to redirect to doesn't appear, you
can enter the e-mail address in the To field.
6.
Click
OK to save your selections and return to the new rule window.
Click
Save to save your rule and return to the Inbox Rules tab.
That’s it. You should
be all set to receive all of your IVC email
If you have a problem, please email me at cmccaughey@ivc.edu