Yahoo Help Files written by the EVO TEAM
with notes and advice specific to the settings we recommend for the EVO environment
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- Getting a Yahoo! ID - New Yahoo Groups - You will need a Yahoo ID to create a new group. Don't worry, you can revert to your preferred email as soon as your group is set up.
- Getting Started with the New Yahoo Groups - creating a group from scratch
- Settings in YG NEO - how to set the features of YG to your best advantage in an EVO session
- Also includes settings for the old YG interface
- For NEW Yahoo Groups interface:
- Screencast: The new layout and some features of YG
- Sending an automated message (auto-send options for FILES)
- For OLD Yahoo Groups only:
- Screencast: How to set your YG communications for Daily Digest, by Sandra Rogers
- Screencast: How to send the syllabus to new participants - See also, auto-send options for FILES
- Database in YG
- Adding a Moderator (Neo and Old versions of YG)
- Email Options
- Bouncing Members
- Pretty fonts in YG - a little basic HTML to make your YG front page look much more professional and inviting
Other Useful Links
Yahoo! Groups Help FAQs - link to the official YG Help files for the NEO version
OTHER GROUPS: Yahoo! Groups-Google+Communities etc. - information about other possible homes for your EVO session, collected from discussions among EVO Moderators of previous years. If you want to use Moodle, it has many nice features, but you'll have to work harder to keep your session together as a community--it was designed for courses, not informal groups.
EVO is a project of TESOL's CALL IS
last updated 29 October 2012 by E. Hanson-Smith