Course Aliases and Groups

Course aliases are Google Groups as an e-mail address for the instructor and students in a course. These follow the format [Subject][Course Number]-[Section]-[term][calendar year], for example: AN201G-1-SP2022@eckerd.edu

For further information on course aliases, please visit the Marketing and Communication department's site by clicking here, and ITS' page on Google Groups here. 

This fields can be found when you browse classes on registration.eckerd.edu. See below for an example of how a course alias is formulated, and what information is required in order for one to be created.

• Subject: AN

• Course Number: 201G

• Section: 1 - This will show with leading zeros when browsing classes

• term: FA, SP, SU for Fall, Spring and Summer and the calendar year 

Nota Bene: Courses before Spring '22 (Term 202120) do not have the year in the name (ex.: an201g-1-fa)

ITS generates the following types of e-mail aliases from Banner for each term:

• course

• class year

• collegium

• major

• mentor

• housing

Class Year

All the students classified by class year: frosh, sophomores, juniors,

and seniors@eckerd.edu. In addition you can reach the entire student

body with <students@eckerd.edu>, and all of campus for general-interest

events using <campus-events@eckerd.edu>.

In addition, we generate the group autumn-all@eckerd.edu for all participants in Autumn Term.

Collegium

All the students, divided by which Collegium their major falls under.

The name is [collegium]_students, for example:

<nas_students@eckerd.edu>

Major

All students who have declared a given major. In addition, this is

broken down my class year. The formats are [major name, with spaces

replaced by underscores]_major and [major name, with spaces

replaced by underscores]_[classyear], for example:

<visual_arts_major@eckerd.edu> and <visual_arts_freshmen@eckerd.edu>

Mentor

All the students mentored by a given faculty member. The format is

[faculty-email]_mentees, for example (if Walter Moore were a mentor):

<moorewr_mentees@eckerd.edu>

Housing

Aliases for each House and Complex, following the formats [house

name]_house and [complex name]_complex, for

example: <prasch_house@eckerd.edu> and <alpha_complex@eckerd.edu>

Exceptions...

Nu and Omega do not have House aliases. Omega has floor aliases -omega_house_1@eckerd.edu through omega_house_3@eckerd.edu. Nu has section aliases nu_house_1_4@eckerd.edu through nu_9_12@eckerd.edu.