Editing Personal Information | Joining/Dropping Groups | Requesting a New Group | Sending Bulk Email | Modifying Your Forum Email Alerts| Additional Help
-Editing Personal Information
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You can change your personal information at any time. This enables you to protect your password, correct or change your full name, publish a URL for a your website, and change your login name/email address. If you do not keep this login name the same as your current email address or a forwarding address, you will not receive group emails and forum alerts from .LRN.
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To change personal information:
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Joining/Dropping Groups
- There are three types of groups: classes, communities and subgroups (of classes
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There are three types of groups: classes, communities and subgroups (of classes and communities). Limited Access users (non-affiliated) cannot join or drop groups.
-To join/drop classes and communities:
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To join/drop subgroups:
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Requesting a New Class or Community
- The Site Wide Administrator handles class and community requests.
The Site Wide Administrator handles class and community requests.
To request a new class or to copy and reuse a class from a previous semester:
Send email <%=[ad_host_administrator]%>. For a new class, include the class
number, class title, professor(s), teaching assistants and course assistants.
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and previous semester of the course. Include professor, teaching assistant and
course assistant information if any of that has changed. The "recycled"
class will contain all old content, but the student list will be cleared.
To request a new community:
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Send email to <%=[ad_host_administrator]%>. Include the name of the community, a brief description of its purpose, the faculty or staff sponsor, the name(s) of any persons who will need to be administrators of this community. You will be notified by email when the community shell has been created.
-Bulk Mail
- Class and community administrators can send group emails through the group administration
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Class and community administrators can send group emails through the group administration page. If enabled, class and community members can send group emails through the "Email Members" links on the user's My Account page.
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Modifying Your Forum Email Alerts
+Modifying Your Forum Email Alerts
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You can subscribe and unsubscribe to email alerts for any forum open to you through the "Edit My Forum Email Alerts" link on the My Account page. Limited Access users can access their My Account page through the Help icon in the group banner.
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