1. Your Email Account with Winnipeg School Division
You require an active account. Any other existing personal email accounts
you have are filtered out and can not be accessed. All accounts have the
@wsd1.org as part of the email account. Your account will be set up upon
request. Maintain a secure, secret password and change it from time
to time.
2. Logging On
On-Line Web Messaging
click on this direct link or start at the main page of the Winnipeg School
Division, and navigate to staff
resources, then Email Management,
then On-Line Web Messaging.
3. Main Functions
The Menu tab displays the Mailbox items for *Main, Sent, Deleted and
Draft. All incoming email messages are placed in the Main Mailbox. If you
select the option to save a copy of your "sent" email, it will be
placed in the sent Mailbox. If you changed the personal options to not purge
deleted messages but to transfer them to the deleted Mailbox, they will be
placed in the Deleted Mailbox. They can be deleted when you wish. Draft
messages, not sent, can be saved in the Draft Mailbox.
The Compose tab displays the window used to compose, add an attachment, add a
signature and send the message.
The Address Book tab is use to add, delete and manage your lists of email
addresses.
4. Checking for new mail, processing read messages
Check for new mail in the Main Mailbox. Unread messages are
highlighted and a number appears telling the number of messages and unread
messages. After reading, you can either keep them in the Main Mailbox, transfer
them to a specific mailbox or delete the message. Please note that if you
set your preferences to delete an incoming message automatically, it is
removed immediately from the WSD server and can not be retrieved.
5. Composing an email message
Email messages you send are not like chat items. They need to follow some
standard etiquette. An email message has several areas to add or type
information. These appear as a 'quote box'. The correct order of placing
information is:
TO:
Subject:
Body of Message:
Attachment
You need to add the email address of who the email message will be sent
"TO:". You can type the address in or select it from the
address book then click on "TO:" - this will place the correct
address in the "To" quote box
You need to add a subject that describes the topic of the message. Good
sample subjects are:
Meeting Agenda December 05
Fwd for your reply on Music Concert Program
Minutes of Staff Meeting December 2, 2002
In adequate subject entries are:
It's me!
Hi
Yes
No
Find it!
Find it?
In the Body of the message, type the recipient's name and press enter.
On the next line, type the sentences and paragraphs of the message. Press enter
to start a new paragraph. Do not indent the paragraphs.
After the end of the message, press enter, type Bye or Good Bye, then
press enter.
Type your name, or add your signature or have it automatically added if your
preference is set for adding it.
If you want to add an attachment, scroll down to the bottom and follow the
two steps to browse to the location of the folder and file name, click on it,
then a attach the file to the 'Attachment List'. You can attach more than
one file to the attachment list. Check the size in Kb to make sure the
attachment file size is not over the limit of 1000 Kb.
6. Address Book
One feature of Web Messaging that save time and provides wording is the
Address Book. Address book is used to add, change or delete an email
address. New entries can be made when composing a message by clicking on
the box that places a check mark next to "Add all recipients to my address
book". From incoming email, you can add click on "Save
Address" in the top section of 'From'.
7. Log Out and Exit the browser.
After each Log In session using Web Messaging, you must click on the Log Out
button located in the top right hand corner. If you do not, anyone can
access your email account and read, send or change your passwords.
Then exit from the internet browser. Otherwise, cache copies of your
screens and messages can be read by other users after you leave the computer
workstation.
8. User Beware - Media Awareness
You Go Girl in Technology
The goal is to help girls become safe, wise and responsible Internet users.
CyberSense and Nonsense- The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs
explore the Online chat rooms and see what is involved before you get involved
online with unknown users.
Jo Cool - Jo Fool - quiz
of 20 questions to see what you know for sure.
9. Definitions
Reading the Mailbox Summary
Mailbox - The name of the mailbox. You will see the following standard mailboxes, plus any mailboxes that you have created.
Main - All new mail will be in this mail box, unless you have set options to route mail elsewhere.
Sent - This mailbox is activated when you set your "Save copy of outgoing mail in Sent folder" preference to Yes.
Deleted - This mailbox is activated when you set your "Deleted messages" preference to "Move to Deleted folder".
Draft - This mailbox is activated when you select to "Save", rather than "Send", a message that you are composing. You can select a message in the draft folder at a later time, modify it, and send it.
10. Filtering
Eudora:
Created November 19, 2002, revision date
May 30, 2007
