MESSAGES ONLY is helpful where students find it difficult to understand
that, although they can send e-mails via BB, they can't read them there. A
colleague told me that his students were upset because they were expecting
replies to arrive in the BB site and thought they were being ignored when
they received no answers to their e-mails (they hadn't realised they needed
to log into our quite separate mail programme to read the messages). And if
staff don't have too many sites to look after and are happy to go in
regularly to check whether they have any messages then MESSAGES ONLY should
be ok? Another good reason for MESSAGES ONLY is if students are never going
to bother with the institutional e-mail because they are wedded to their own
mailer program (I find part-time students are often reluctant or confused by
the insitutional e-mail).
E-MAIL ONLY is helpful where staff have umpteen sites on the go and simply
don't have the time to go in to each one separately and check whether any
students have left messages. Personally, I prefer all e-mails to come to my
own mailbox where I can handle them centrally.
However, I think it would probably avoid confusion if instructors/tutors
turned off one and only used the other. I just had a horrible thought that
I might have lots of messages which I have never looked at sitting in my
module sites! So I had better go and turn off messages on my module sites
now . . .
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Arthur Loughran
> Sent: 20 September 2005 10:30
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [BLACKBOARD-USERGROUP] Messages and Emails
>
> Hi,
> Has anyone developed a polocy/practice on using Messages vs Email?
>
> Some of our staff are taken with the idea of using Messages
> only and for the life of me I cannot come up with a reason
> why they shouldn't.
>
> thanks,
> Arthur Loughran
> University of Paisley.
>
> PS Just came across a potential problem for staff who may try
> to clean up their menu by removing the Communication option
> from the menu. If they delete the option (as apposed to make
> unavailable) there appears to be no way to edit the options
> in the Communication link in the Tools menu. Is this correct?
>
>
>
>
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