Class email lists - Technology Support for Courses at Stanford

	Class email lists These email announcement lists are distribution lists containing the email addresses of the people related to your class.
	What do I get? How do I use it? About signing up How do I maintain my lists? The Details

What do I get?

Email announcement lists are a new service from Leland Systems!

When you register for Email Announcement Lists, you'll get an e-mail distribution list of all your students. This list will be updated automatically, using current enrollment data from the Registrar, so you won't have to deal with subscribing or unsubscribing students as they add or drop the class. Please note that we use students' "@stanford.edu" email addresses. If they use another account as their primary email address, they should set their @stanford.edu address to forward to that account at StanfordYou

You'll also get three other lists, making it easy to communicate with the appropriate groups of people related to your class!

Four lists are created:

classname-qtr-staff	- a list containing only the class staff members
classname-qtr-students	- a list containing only the class students. Note:the student list is auto-populated with information from the Registrar's Office. You can not alter this list.
classname-qtr-guests	- a list containing only the class guests, such as invited speakers
classname-qtr-all	- a list containing all the members of the other three lists

How do I use it?
	Easy! Say your class is ee103 and it's winter quarter 2002-03: All you have to do is send email to: ee103-win0203-students@lists.stanford.edu ...and every student in your class will receive the message. Note: These lists are for educational use only.

About signing up?
	Register for Leland Course Services. Complete the form, listing all class instructors, TAs, etc. In section 2 be sure to select the "Class announcement-only email lists" service.

How do I maintain my lists?

Remember: the classname-students and classname--all lists are maintained automatically.
You can maintain the other lists -- add people, remove them, change the password, etc. -- using the web version of Majordomo at http://lists.stanford.edu/majordomo. Note that, while the classname--students list can not be altered, you can still use Majordomo to see who is on that list.
(Majordomo is the internet mailing list product used by Stanford)

The Details:

For simplicity, we'll use ee103 as an example class.

	Privileges	Subscription	Posting	Populate
ee103-staff	Membership of this list is controlled by the people on ee103-staff.	Closed list. New members may subscribe by approval of ee103-staff list members.	Open. Anyone can send email to this list.	Will be initially populated by info. on the registration form.
ee103-students	Membership is controlled automatically. Staff may issue the "who" command to see the names/emails of students on the list.	Initially, Closed and locked. Uses student's SUNetID@stanford.edu address.	Initial setting is ee103-staff only. Staff may change who posts via http://lists.stanford.edu	Updated daily with data from the Registrar
ee103-guests	Membership is controlled by ee103-staff.	Closed by default. ee103-staff can open the list to anyone.	ee103-staff only.	Populated by ee103-staff (if closed), or populated by people wanting access (if opened).
ee103-all	Membership is only ee103-staff, ee103-students, and ee103-guests.	Closed and locked.	ee103-staff only.	Automatic.