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Updated: March 13, 2007

Productivity tutorial

Download this detailed tutorial to learn how to communicate with students and colleagues more efficiently, and how to take advantage of electronic communication for your classroom, including Web pages, discussion groups, virtual classrooms, and online conferencing:

Step-by-step instructions help you understand the basics, create e-mail distribution lists, access newsgroups and discussion groups, and set up distance learning.

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Productivity tutorial
ItemRequirements

Instructional level

Intermediate user

Advanced user

Curriculum areas

Teacher productivity

Classroom management

Technology

Software required

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook Express

Objectives

Use Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to communicate with students and colleagues quickly and easily.

Compose, send, save, and organize e-mail messages.

Use Outlook to facilitate collaboration with students and colleagues in and out of the classroom.

Take advantage of electronic communication in education, including Web pages, discussion groups, virtual classrooms, and online conferencing.

Tutorial outline

Table of contents
This comprehensive table of contents provides a detailed outline for each chapter of the guide.

Introduction
Learn how to use Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express to communicate with students and colleagues with ease. This one-page chapter contains a comprehensive summary of the information in this book.

The basics
This 12-page chapter helps you get started with Outlook and Outlook Express. Take a tour of Outlook, and learn how to compose and send e-mail messages, send messages with attached files, reply to messages, and create folders to save and organize your e-mail messages.

E-mail with groups
This 10-page chapter shows you how to create an address book and build distribution lists for e-mail messages that you want to send to groups. Learn how to set message options to indicate the importance and confidentiality of your e-mail messages, or to incorporate voting and tracking features for survey purposes.

Beyond e-mail
This four-page chapter contains information about ways to use electronic communication that go beyond simple e-mail messages and are ideally suited to distance-learning students. Learn how to e-mail Web pages and links to your students, access newsgroups and discussion groups, and hold online conferences with students and colleagues.

Learn more about it
This three-page chapter lists additional resources to help you and your students get the most out of Outlook and Outlook Express. Learn about resources to increase accessibility and enhance communication with colleagues and students.

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Microsoft Word fileTable of contents (712 KB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft Word fileIntroduction (323 KB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft Word fileThe basics (445 KB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft Word fileE-mail with groups (359 KB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft Word fileBeyond e-mail (316 KB Microsoft Word file)

Microsoft Word fileLearn more about it (292 KB Microsoft Word file)

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