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

• Getting Started with YG

• Settings in YG - how to set the features of YG to your best advantage in an EVO session

• Screencast: The new layout and some features of YG

• Screencast: How to set your YG communications for Daily Digest, by Sandra Rogers

• Screencast: How to send messages to new/joining/departing participants only

• Screencast: How to send the syllabus to new participants
  

• Screencast: How to see a threaded list of messages in YG, by ElizabethA

• Database in YG
• Database in New YG

• Creating & Using Polls

• Adding a Moderator

• Calendar in YG

• Adding Links

• Editing Email Options (Participants)

• Email Options (Moderators)

• Filtering Your Email

• Bouncing Members Tutorial 1

• Bouncing Members Tutorial 2

• Pretty fonts in YG - a little basic HTML to make your YG front page look much more professional and inviting

• Sending an automated message (auto-send options for FILES) 

Other Useful Links

Yahoo! Groups Help FAQs - link to the official YG Help files

OTHER GROUPS: Yahoo! Groups-Google Groups-Grouply, 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