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Directions & Tips on setting up CSNmail accounts!
An example: Setting up a School with CSNmail!
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Introduction:
This page gives you an example of how you might set up a school using CSNmail and how this relates to the CatholicNET Front page.
The CatholicNET Front page is accessed at the designated URL (if you do not know this URL, contact us at wcl@csnmail.net).
That front page allows you to put up general information on the school as well as hot links out to other pages. This is where the CSNmail messaging system comes in - it is meant to give you all the additional both Personal and Generic web pages you need to fill out your site and keep it exciting.
So, in setting up the school, we want to set up two different types of accounts:
1. Generic CSNmail Addresses for the various grades and offices - to be used for general communication.
2. Specific Personal CSNmail addresses for administrative folks, teachers, students, family et. al. - to be used for specific personal communications.
1) For example, say the School was St. Arthur School. We might have a username of "sas" for St. Arthur School. In making up a list, we might assign addresses for the first area like this:
sas-k (sas-k@csnmail.net) - for St. Arthur School Kindergarten
sas-1 (sas-1@csnmail.net)- for St. Arthur School Grade 1
sas-nurse (sas-nurse@csnmail.net) - for the St. Arthur School Nurse
2. Specific Personal CSNmail addresses for administrative folks, teachers et. al.Jane Doe = jdoe@csnmail.net
Using the csnmail messaging system, you can load up additional pages using the " File Manager " located under the " Extras " button. The First Grade might put up a page from their "generic e-mail box" while the First Grade Teacher(s) might choose to put up a "message from the teacher" page from their personal e-mail box.
Communication between, for example, "first grade classes in various schools" might take place using the "generic first grade e-mail address", while a message to the teacher about a student might take place using the teacher's personal e-mail box.
All of the appropriate pages, put up by the various classes, teachers et. al., would be linked out on various levels of control. In general, after the class pages are completed, the web page addresses would be communicated to the "webmaster / IC" who would put up either a "general link" out to a "class page" (where other links would be contained), or put up a "specific webpage link" out to a "specific individual webpage". These initial links would be done on the various school main page via the CatholicNET upload system.
The possibilities are endless, but also provide for control over the links by appropriate folks.
We hope we are making our presentation clearly, but time will tell.
1) We would like to give you the ability to put up csnmail messaging / e-mail boxes on your own (as well as others in your organization). We are making this capability available to a limited number of folks to start and would like you to give us some comments after a couple of weeks to see how you feel it works for you.
In addition to the csnmail accounts including webbased e-mail capabilities, one of the major advantages is the ability to upload webpages via the file manager under the "Extras" key.
So, simply go to designated URL (if you do not know this URL, contact us at wcl@csnmail.net)
2) While it is entirely up to you, we generally suggest that the full name be just that, without titles, so that in the future if we don't get everyone under Ms., Mr., Mrs. or etc.
3) The usernames are of your choosing, but a first initial and full lastname are
good.
4) Set up folks with a general password and ask them to change it on line under settings.
5) As for the reference organization, simply use your username (or the title for your organization, or the number from the Catholic directory (or whatever, but use it consistantly) so we can group all these for you.
Note: Just one fyi - the computer 'enters the accounts' into the system at the time you
enter them, BUT, they become active on the hour. (11:00 am, 12:00, etc.), so,
you will have to wait until the next hour to use the account.
If you have questions, please let us know at wcl@csnmail.net