Email Options--Moderators


 

One of the most frequent problems for EVO moderators is how to manage emails

 

You will probably experience an avalanche of email in the first 2 weeks of a session. You should read every email, and you really need to respond in a warm and welcoming manner to your new group and help make it cohesive, but you don't want to add to the flood in everyone's box. The Moderators group often discusses this problem, and two main methods of handling mail are usually the best. This page also offers some general ideas to ease the load.

 

Please add to this list if you have some more ideas!

 

 


 

 

 

MAIL OPTIONS IN THE  "Neo" VERSION OF Yahoo Groups

 

General suggestions for handling mail

 

 

 

Setting Moderator email preferences in the "new" Yahoo Groups

 

1. After signing into your group, pull down the menu under >Membership and select >Edit Membership (Figure 1).

 

Figure 1. Edit Membership Menu

 

2. In the resulting menu, hover over and click on the little pencil next to Subscription to get the >Edit Settings button activated (Figure 2).

 

Figure 2. Editing Settings

 

 

3. Select one of the choices. You can also set your alert preferences on this page (Figure 3). Be sure to click on the >SAVE button before leaving this menu!

 

Figure 3. Selecting a Message Delivery option (see also Moderator Alerts). Be sure to >SAVE before leaving the page.

 

Moderator Alerts

 

Generally you will want to check ALL of the options under Moderator Alerts, but if your session has several moderators, you may want to assign just one to handle each of these items, as in the example in Figure 3.

 

 

Selecting the right email option

 

Suggestions for the  >Individual Email option

 

If you opt to receive messages individually in your mailbox:

 

 

Suggestions for the >Daily Digest option

 

 

 

Sorting Mail

 

You can keep mail from your EVO session separate from your personal or school mail in several ways:

 

 

For Participants (to be completed)

 

To be continued . . .


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DIRECTIONS FOR THE OLDER YG VERSION - EMAIL OPTIONS

 

 


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Updated 25 October 2013- E Hanson-Smith