Creating an email

🟢Send emails to your teachers asking questions and clarifying expectations for assignments.  You have the ability to  email your teachers and your principal. 

🟢Check your email to see if any of your teachers are giving directions or feedback through email.

🟢Communicate with others using appropriate language in a courteous and respectful manner. 

🟢If you are upset, take some time before responding via email. Better yet, have a parent, guardian, or other adult read it before you send it. Emails are like toothpaste, it’s a lot easier to get out than to put back in!

Considerations

🟡Turn on email notifications from Brightspace for announcements, assignment feedback, and approaching due dates.

🟡Email, like all forms of digital communication, are forever. Deleting them does not make them go away.

🟡Remember that emails don’t include non-verbal communication. You can’t see the other person’s face or hear their tone of voice. Be more careful how you word things and don’t assume the worst as you read emails.

Things to Avoid

🔴Don’t send confidential information in an email, such as your password!

🔴Do not create, access, or distribute offensive, obscene, bullying, or inflammatory materials. Emails are permanent and your name is attached to them.

🔴Email is not the way to turn in assignments. Don’t send an email with an attachment; submit through Brightspace.

🔴Don’t send anything you would be embarrassed to say in public. Use your head!