The Automatic Class Email Alias Generation Project provides faculty members, and their students, automatically generated email aliases for their classes based on information from PeopleSoft Student Administration . The following menu can take you to the information you need:
A class email alias is an electronic mailing list stored on the Central UNIX system that contains the email addresses of all faculty and students associated with a particular class. The purpose of the class email alias is to simplify the process of communicating with students via email. Use of class email aliases is subject to all of the same policies as other email use.
At the beginning of the quarter an email messages will be sent to faculty as new class aliases are assigned to them. The name of an alias is based on the course abbreviation, number, section, year and quarter.
To send email to the class email alias use the fully qualified name, as follows:
aliasname@calpoly.edu
Class email aliases for the upcoming quarter will be created around the 7th or 8th week of the current quarter. Each class email alias is updated nightly in order to reflect student enrollment actions, including adds and drops in the class.
When a user replies to any messages sent to the class email alias, the message will be sent to every person who is a member of the alias. Please make sure your students understand this as it could generate a lot of unnecessary email messages.
Anyone who knows the name of the class email alias will be able to use it. Because of this, there is potential for abuse (SPAM). If you feel the class email alias is being used inappropriately, you may request that the class email alias be renamed or disabled. For more information go to the advanced user guide.
For information on adding additional members who are not enrolled in the class to the class email alias (e.g., a grader or student assistant), see the advanced user guide.
The program used to generate the class email aliases will use the student's username@calpoly.edu. In almost all cases, this sends mail to the student's Cal Poly email account (Oracle Email). If the student wants to use AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. instead of their Cal Poly email account, then they should:
Training on the use and editing of the Class Email Aliases will be offered as needed. A Central UNIX account and password are required to edit Class Email Aliases. Contact the ITS Service Desk at x6-7000 to request a UNIX account and assistance with Class Email Aliases.
Last updated: 08/21/06
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