Who is this for?
Email modules are for people who want to learn more about how to use email better in a college environment.
If you come across a term you do not understand, try looking it up in the Computer Hope Glossary.
Places to learn about Email
GCFLearnFree
This is a tutorial with lessons about how to use common email features, use the calendar and contacts functions, and practice proper etiquette.
To learn more about spam and fishing, try this lesson: Avoiding spam and phishing
If you are not sure what spam and phishing are, look below for the links to the Digital Unite Technology Guides or search those terms at the Computer Hope Glossary.
More Microsoft Email Tutorials
This page has links to all the Email tutorials.
NOTE: If you want to save your progress as you work through GCFLearnFree tutorials and lessons, you can create an account and log in each time you do some work here.
DigitalLearn
There are six short lessons in this module. It should take 15 minutes to complete all six lessons. The lessons cover the basics of what email is, how to set up an account and how to reply to and send emails.
Intro to Email 2: Beyond the Basics
There are seven short lessons in this module. It should take 20 minutes to complete all seven lessons.
The lessons cover how to
add an attachment
use the Reply all, CC, BCC and Forwarding features
save drafts
organize your email folders
find messages
deal with spam and junk mail
The lessons are slideshows with pictures and a voiceover. You will need speakers or headphones to hear the voiceovers. If you do not have speakers or headphones, you can read along and pause when you like. There are also PDFs of all the lessons that you can save and read later.
Learn My Way
You have to register to take this course. In this course you will learn all about email accounts on the internet. The course covers how to set-up an email account, as well as how to open, read and send emails safely.
You can go through the whole lesson or you can pick a specific topic. You can watch a video to get started. To see the whole lesson, click on Start this subject. To do a lesson on a specific topic, click the links. You have an option to turn on audio in the lessons if you would like to hear the lessons as well as read them.
Wisconsin Technical Colleges Basic Computer Skills MOOC
Demonstrate Basic Email Functions
This is a course. Each section covers related computer skills divided into Learning Activities and concludes with a test. You can sign up if you want to take the tests or you can go through the material as a guest.
The sections are:
Explore Email
Create and Send Email
Create Email Attachments
Manage Your Email Account
Examine Email Netiquette and Safety
Demonstrate Basic Email Functions Test
Digital Unite Technology Guides
Guides to get you started using Email.
You can read the web pages or print them out.
Clear Communication in Email
Explained by Common Craft
It may not seem obvious at first, but using email effectively is an important skill for online life. This video teaches an easy way to communicate clearly in email, and get the results you want, by answering three simple questions.
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