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Here are
the instructions for accessing the yahoo group for your section
Mavisuallanguage<n>
User's Guide
--------------------------------0 :: Contents
(1) Join the list by invitation
(2) Join the list without being invited
(3) The website
(4) Send an email to the list
(5) Suggested things to post
(6) questions
(7) short list of commands
1 :: Join
the list by invitation
-If you've given your email address to Jane you should receive an email
from mavisuallanguage<n>-owner@yahoogroups.com inviting you to join
the group. In that email will be a button that says "Join this group!"
which you should click on.
-This takes you to a "Request to join" website that describes
the group and says that you will need to be approved for membership by
Jane (or more likely a TA). Again there is a link here that says "Join
the group." (apparently it's not so exciting this time) which you
should once again click.
-Assuming you aren't currently signed in to yahoo, this will take you
to a page asking you to sign in, or alternately if you don't already have
a yahoo user name, to sign up which is free.
-If you need to sign up for a user name, click the "Sign Up"
link which takes you to a fairly short form to be filled in. Click "I
Agree" once you are done which takes you to a page informing you
that a confirmation message has been sent to the email address you've
provided. Check your email, and in the new email from yahoo, click "Important!
Click here to activate your new account. This will take you ping-ponging
back to a website that congratulates you on being able to follow directions.
Click "Continue to Yahoo!"
-If you already have a yahoo account, sign in.
-So now you're at the join the group page. If you have multiple email
address saved in yahoo, pick which one you want emails from this group
sent to. Select whether you want individual emails, a daily digest, only
special notices, or no emails at all. (This can be changed later, so I
might recommend starting by receiving individual emails and deciding later
if you don't like that.) Enter the verification text to prove you are
a human being and click "Join" and you are now a member!
2 :: Join
the list without being invited
-Ok, so maybe you didn't have an email address ready to give to Jane or
maybe some other unforeseen problem came up. You can always send the email
address to her or a TA later asking to be invited, but there's another
way too. No big deal. With your email address at the ready, send off an
email to mavisuallanguage<n>-subscribe@yahoogroups.com where the
<n> part should be replaced by the number of your section. So for
example if Matt is your TA, send it to mavisuallanguage2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.
The email doesn't need to have anything in the subject line or body, but
probably wouldn't hurt anything if it did.
-You'll get an email right back asking you to confirm. Either click on
the link or reply to the email. Assuming you clicked the link you'll be
taken to a "Request to join" page at which point you can pick
up the directions in section 1 above. At the end of them you will probably
have to wait for approval before you are made a member of the group; I
don't feel like creating yet another fake yahoo account to find out but
it should work out just fine.
3 :: The website
-The website for your group is http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mavisuallanguage<n>
where <n> is the number of you section. Along the left side of the
page is a navigation bar where you can get to any section of the group.
Here you'll be able to read messages, chat, upload files or photos that
you might want feedback on, post a link to a website you think might help
people, list a date on the calendar or several other things I'll let you
explore.
4 :: Send
an email to the list
-One of the most important features of the group is that you can send
an email to a single address, and it will be received by everyone in the
section (assuming they signed up to receive emails). It will also be archived
on the website where anyone in the section can read it whether they receive
emails or not. (Note that only members of the group, meaning people in
your section, can read this online archive. This keeps this group a safe
and private place - you don't have to worry about things you say within
the group being read by strangers on the web.) You can send messages to
the group either from your own email program (software or your computer
or web based) or from the group website.
-From the program or website where you normally use your email, simply
compose a message to the address mavisuallanguage<n>@yahoogroups.com
where <n> is the number of your section (i.e. mavisuallanguage2@yahoogroups.com
if your TA is Matt).
-From the website go to the section "Post" which is a subsection
of "Messages" in the navigation bar along the left hand side
of the page. That will take you to an email form ready to fill out and
send off.
5 :: Suggested
things to post
-So now your thinking, "great, so here's this group thing for this
class and I'm never going to use it - I just want to get my work for the
class done as soon as possible so I can go back to watching Strong Bad."
But hey man, thinking about it for a second - there are some useful things
you can do with this list. Say there's part of an assignment you don't
understand. You can ask on the list for clarification or to see how other
people are taking it to mean. Or maybe you are working on a piece, it's
halfway done, and you want to find someone to take a look and give you
a little feedback. Well they could just be an email away. Or maybe you
found a website/book/whatever that's really helping you out a lot and
you think maybe others could benefit. Maybe even once in awhile you want
to post a party or something going on. You know: "come for the underage
drinking, stay for the underage puking." But, hey, I'm just a stodgy
old TA. I'm sure you can come up with many better ideas.
6 :: questions
If you have problems or questions with this, you can email me as list
owner: mavisuallanguage<n>-owner@yahoogroups.com
7 :: short
list of commands
Group name: mavisuallanguage<n>
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mavisuallanguage1
Subscribe: mavisuallanguage<n>-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
Post message: mavisuallanguage<n>@yahoogroups.com
List owner: mavisuallanguage<n>-owner@yahoogroups.com |