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Email Exercise:
Email is a communication tool that is a fast and easy way to stay in touch with family, friends and college instructors.  It will allow you to send and receive messages almost anywhere that the Internet is accessible. For more email information, try the Campus Connect Email Help and Tutorial. (Note, too, that your Campus Connect username and password are also used for access to the Virtual Library off-campus, eLearning, and CareerLink. Check the various "tabs" within Campus Connect for these services.)

Instructions for this exercise:

  1. To activate your Campus Connect account go to: Campus Connect if you have not already done so.
  2. Choose the link "First time users start here."
  3. Follow the instructions to obtain your username and create your password.
  4. When you have obtained your username and established your password, log into Campus Connect.
  5. Enter your Campus Connect email account by clicking on the email icon towards the top of the screen. (It looks like an envelope.)
  6. Take not of your own email address (found in upper part of the email screen)
    **In order to send email messages, click on Compose**
  7.  Get the email addresses of your instructor and of one of your classmates.
  8. Send an email message to your instructor. Type your instructor’s email address in the text box marked To:
    b. Type Ivy 102 and your last name in the text box marked “Subject: ”
    c. Type your message in the large text box provided.  Write a sentence describing your first impression of email and of the course you are taking.
    d. Click on SEND.
    e. Click OK when you get confirmation.
  9. Send a similar email message to the classmate whose address you have, and a copy of this message to your instructor. Type your classmate’s address in the text box marked “To: ”
  10.  Type your instructor’s address in the text box marked “CC: ”
  11.  Type your message in the large text box.
  12. Click on SEND.
  13. Click on OK when you get confirmation.
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