Re: student email--help

[Chad Engbers <87engbers@cua.edu>]

>1) Do your students have supported email on your campus?

Yes.  They cannot use all of the fancy email readers (like Outlook) when
they dial in from off campus, but even a very simple dial-in program lets
them use Pine.

>2) Do you use the same email system as your students use?


Faculty and students use the same email system--the only real difference is
that student email addresses begin with the last 2 digits of the social
security number and then add the last name; faculty accounts are just the
last name.   Everyone is given an account with a limited amount of CPU time.
You start with $500 credit at the beginning of the semester, and the system
"charges" you for accessing your account.  It's not real money--when you run
out you simply can't access your account until you fill out a form and get
the chair of your department to sign it.  And in any case, programs which
allow you to check your mail in flashes, reading and writing offline, are
making that a much easier system to live with.

Teaching assistants (like me) make out like bandits here.  We can get both
student and faculty accounts--I am both engbers@cua.edu and
87engbers@cua.edu.  This effectively doubles the CPU time--I use one account
until it runs out and then forward the mail to the other.  The same is true
for web space, by the way.  5MB free for any student or faculty member--10MB
if you happen to be both and get two accounts.



Chad
Catholic University of America