Gaggle Mail

Supervised student email Data transfer from home school

System restrictions

Students at Carlton are forbidden from using any other email system (i.e. hotmail, sasktel, shaw, etc.) on school computers

Students cannot easily transfer files to other students (restricted access to their home folder)

Gaggle Mail Option

Students can be given a gaggle mail account that allows them to send email and a small amount of data transfer storage

Teacher responsibilities

You are agreeing to the following by setting up gaggle mail for your students:

To create and delete student email accounts To monitor the use of the email regularly To enforce school policies about student

accounts

Startup

Logon to gaggle mail using the Student mail link from Carlton’s home page

Logging on

Use your assigned user name and password

All Carlton email address must end with .cchs

Setting up new users for your class Select Student Admin|Add Users Scroll to bottom of the page and use the

Create User Keys option Enter the number of user keys you will need

to generate

Setting up new users for your class CRITICAL: make sure

you set yourself as the administrator for these accounts

Set digital locker to only store private files

Leave the other options as default

Press [Run] when ready

Setting up new users for your class Highlight the list of generated keys using your

mouse. Copy this list. Paste it into a word document, and save it.

When it is time for your students to get their mail account, give each student one of these key numbers.

Student accounts

Students must follow these rules when creating their email account. You will need to enforce this.

User name must be in the form firstinitiallastname.cchs, for example if there was a student called David Partner, then their email would be dpartner.cchs

Password is their responsibility, but should NOT be the same as their school password

Student account monitoring

After students have created their accounts, they will show in your list (Student Admin|Student List), as you are their supervising teacher

Check that they have all created their accounts with the correct name (must end in .cchs)

Check regularly that students are sending appropriate messages. Any inappropriate language or topics will be blocked, and you will get a notification about this.

Student account monitoring

Turn off blogging, unless you understand the concept of blogging and are also prepared to monitor it for all your students

Select all the students in your list, then use Edit Blog Settings and set blog access to No Blogging

Student account monitoring

Forward all your gaggle mail to your Sask. Rivers mail account for easier monitoring

Click on and set forwarding like this: