Academic Technology Launchpad: How To's

Navigation 

Select Mail from myapps, if not already displayed. 

1. New mail - click to create a new message
2. Folder list
3. Search box
4. Message list
5. reading pane.

Sort - Click the Arrange by or Conversations by bar. A list of sorting options will display. Conversation View displays messages grouped by conversation topic. 

 The Inbox is split into 3 sections by default: Left = Folders, Middle=Message, Right = Reading pane

You can create additional own folders to organize your email and use Search to locate items in your mailbox.

Reply - Click on the Reply button in the toolbar or click on Reply in the message window.

Forward - Click on the Forward button in the toolbar or click on Forward in the message window. 

People / Contacts

College address book or global address list

Contact information for our students, staff and faculty. 

3 ways to find our college global address or directory list:

• Click on To: in a new mail message window.
• Begin typing your contact's name in the To: field of a new message for automatic suggestions
• Select the People icon to create, view, and edit contacts, contact lists, and groups. 

Contact Lists / Distribution Lists

From Outlook on the web choose People, select the arrow next to New contact, then select New Contact List, Name the list and add members. 

Calendars

Select Calendar from Microsoft 365 app launcher (you may need to select 'all apps'). Choose view options such as Day, Work, Week or Month from the toolbar.

Meetings -Event or appointment that includes others. Use the Scheduling Assistant to check attendees schedule's to determine if they are free to attend your meeting.

Appointments - Events you add to your individual calendar - one time or scheduled to repeat on a regular basis. 

Quick Tip: Add your Bb calendar to your Office 365

Add your Blackboard calendar: Get an iCal URL for importing your Blackboard Learn calendar.

Automatic Forwarding and Rules

There are 2 ways to send your student email to another account, if you choose to do so: Forwarding or Creating an Inbox Rule. To stop the email from going to the other account, you would need to turn off the forwarding or the rule. 

 Forwarding

Automatically forward all e-mail sent to your 365 student webmail account to another account.

1. Login to your student email and click the Settings icon (Gear - upper right). Under Your app settings, click on Mail. 
2. Under Accounts - Forwarding, enter the e-mail address of the account you want all e-mail to be forwarded to.
3. Select Keep a copy of forwarded messages to keep a copy of your forwarded messages in your student email account. 
4. Click Save to save your changes and start forwarding all incoming messages to another account.

Inbox Rules

You can create Inbox Rules to automatically perform specific actions on messages as they arrive, based on criteria you select. For example, you might automatically move all incoming email from a particular sender to a specific folder,set up an autoreply, or redirect email to another account.