MCUSD Student Email Orientation

Welcome to Gmail at school!

MCUSD.org

MCUSD controls the accounts

MCUSD can change your password and read your emails

Your Google email and Docs are NOT Private

The State of California owns: your computer and your email

Be safe. Be smart. We watch it all.

This is your “work” email

We can look up email you delete....

Don’t Delete Your Emails!

1 - You may want to search them later

2 - That doesn’t make them “private”3 - You have 25 gigs, you don’t need the space

A better way!! The Inbox Trick

In Google email, go to the gear

Click on Settings

A better way!! The Inbox TrickClick on inbox…..

Select Unread in the first section

HIT SAVE CHANGES AT THE BOTTOM!

A better way!! The Inbox Trick

Now your unread mail floats to the top!

If you marked it read, it’s still there, but gets pushed to

the bottom

Blocked emails go straight to your teachers

The same applies to images.

There is a filter on the email.

Make sure to put: @student.MCUSD.org

IF YOU ARE ON A CHROMEBOOK OR IN A LAB

7th Grader or 8th Grader on your own iPad?

Go to the Mail App!

Use use Safari

Your email name will be !

<full first>.<full last>@student.MCUSD.org !

[email protected]

If prompted: Make a password you can remember.

Keep your mail open in a tab

School email should always be open at school

Make other tabs for other things Keep email open!

To get your email at home or on another computer:

!

GMAIL.COM

!

<full first>.<full last>@student.MCUSD.org !

[email protected]

Check your email throughout the day.

Lots of things change overnight

Sports Field Trips

Events Assignments

You only get 25 per day for now

Use them wisely

Please don’t email everyone to say “what’s up?”

Please do not select “Reply all”

on large group emails.

Please be polite and appropriate in your emails.

!

You can get in trouble for what you say to people, so think first.

Be safe. Be smart. We watch it all.

This is your “work” email