Class Email List

As part of the University's effort to promote email as an effective communication mechanism for both faculty and students, we have established a mailing list for your soc545.02 class. You and your students may send email messages to this class mailing list and each member of the list will receive a copy of those messages. For your convenience, we have provided two names (email aliases) for your class mailing list, either of which can be used to communicate with your class. The first alias is based on the class number (aka ticket number); the second alias is based on the subject, catalog number, and section. The aliases for this class list are:

class17740-c@csun.edu
soc545.02-c@csun.edu

This class list was pre-populated on Sunday August 28th with your email address (jschutte@csun.edu) and with each student's campus email address that was enrolled in this class as of the list pre-population date. The list is automatically updated on a weekly basis (until census) to reflect the current enrollment of your class; so there is no need for you to maintain the list. In the future, we will provide you with the ability to add non-class members such as a colleague or student assistant to your list(s) so that they can also receive email sent to your list(s).

For your list to be effective, all of your students must activate their campus email account and monitor their email. Students may activate their campus email by logging into the Portal (https://www.csun.edu/portal). If students would prefer to receive campus email to a non-campus email account such as Yahoo or Hotmail, they may configure mail-forwarding to that account via the account maintenance web site (https://www.csun.edu/account).

To minimize the potential of your list receiving spam, we have configured it to be a "closed" list. As a closed list, only members of the list may post messages to it. Consequently, your students may send email to this list using only their campus email address.

As this is the first semester that we are offering this service, we would appreciate it if you could provide us with any feedback that would make this service more effective for your use.