Tech Tips for the week of September 14 - Email Filters, Gmail

True to last week's promise, this week's tech tips will show you how to create email filters within the Chinook email system; however I have a few other items first.

1. Inspiration follow-up: Further to last week's Inspiration tech tip, in a conversation with one of our division Project CRISS leaders, I was asked if Inspiration could handle/generate outlines in "Power Outline" form, one of the concepts of organization central to the CRISS methodology. As a matter of fact, Inspiration can generate power outlines, although it does not do so by default. This makes Inspiration an even more valuable tool to support one of our literacy initiatives. To switch to power outlining in Inspiration:
1. Switch to outline mode by clicking on outline on the toolbar.
2. From the menu, select outline
3. Then prefix labels
4. And finally, power outlining
   Your outline will now be in Power Outline format.
   
   
2. A note to Moodle users: For those of you who use Moodle with your face-to-face students, we would like to pass on a reminder to un-enrol students from previous years' courses. This will prevent students from having to wade through a long list of "dead" courses in their Moodle home page.
   
   
3. And, finally, this week's tech tip: Email filters can be powerful tools for managing your inbox. This weeks' tech tip will demonstrate how to create filters which automatically move messages into particular folders or highlight them, based on their content or origin. I have included video tutorials for those who use the Chinook web mail interface and for those who use Gmail to manage their email accounts:
1. Using filters and folders and highlighting to manage your Chinook Mail
2. Using filters and labels to manage your email within Gmail

If you're not familiar with Gmail, here are some tutorials you may be interested in:

• How to create a Gmail account and
• How to retrieve your Chinook email (and other email) from within Gmail.
  

If you would like direct assistance with your email issues, please feel free to contact your local Elearning team member (Lisa, Cal, Rob, or Shelby)

For those of you who will now create a filter to rid yourself of my tech tips, it's been nice getting to know you. ;-)

Next week's Tech Tip will look at common formatting shortcuts in Microsoft Word.

If you have requests for Tech Tips on a particular topic, please let me know, and I will try to include solutions in future editions.