Most of the best ways to control email clutter are in your hands.
Sometimes students complain about getting too many emails from Iliff. However, it's important to understand where these emails are actually coming from. Once you understand these hot spots, you can actually control how you receive most emails.
1) Check your Canvas notifications. All the emails that come through Canvas are entirely in your hands. There are a default set of ways to notify you of different kinds of activities in Canvas, but you can change any of them at any time. On your navigation bar in Canvas, click the Account link then, click Notifications. From there, you can adjust the sliders to send you email right away, send a daily summary of that activity, send a weekly summary, or never send you anything about this topic.
Use these notification settings with care! Some instructors use the "Announcement" feature to send out urgent messages that they may want you to see right away. You may also use "Push Notifications" to get reminders on your devices rather than through email.
2) Check your subscriptions to Google groups. The "Announcement" emails may be sent by any member of the community. This is actually a "Google group" set up to allow members of the Iliff community to communicate with each other. You can change how these emails appear.
First, sign in to you iliff.edu Gmail account.
Select the 9-square icon near the top right, select More, then Groups.
On the Welcome screen, click My groups (either on the top left or in the center).
The next screen lists all the groups you belong to. To change how you receive email from early, click on the small menu near the right of each group. You may choose from "No email, Abridged email, Digest email, or All email."
These are the two biggest culprits in the "too many emails" problem.
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