Improver Email

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Improver Email

Contents 1 Improver Email 1.1 Accessing Email 1.2 Write an E-Mail 1.2.1 Using Addresses 1.2.2 Attachments 1.3 Creating Folders 1.4 Adding a New Address to your Contact List

The improver theme offers a more conventional approach to email. Children have an address book to add their friends, but can still choose to browse their communities to find addressees. There is no 3-step process, but instead a standard email look with to, attachment and subject fields.

Accessing Email

Email can be accessed in 2 ways in the improver theme. When the user is on their homepage they can click the "Mail" link from their Quick Links.

If they are visiting a community, then they can use the drop down menu from their homepage button.

Clicking on email will take the user direct to their inbox.

Links are provided at the top of the email inbox to Write Mail, Sent Items, Bin and Address list.

Write an E-Mail

• To send a new email, click on Write Mail.
• The user can either type in an email address in the “To” field or chose a contact at their school by clicking on “Addresses”
• Carbon Copies (CC) and Blind Carbon Copies (BCC) can also be chosen.

• The write email screen will open by default in text writing mode. The user can choose to draw a picture, record a short video, add a screenshot or an audio clip using the tabs on the left hand side of the screen.

Using Addresses

When using addresses, the user has an option of choosing contacts from “My Contacts” which is their personal address book. "My Contacts" will include the addresses of friends in the user's personal friend list. Addresses of users who are members of the same community can also be found and added.

• Click “Addresses” from the Write Mail Screen
• From the dropdown on the right hand side, Choose “My Contacts” or a community.
• Tick all the accounts to send the email to and then click “Back to Mail” on the top left of the screen. The addresses will now show in the “To” field.
• Addresses can also be added by starting to type a username in the "To" field. DB Primary will search for usernames in contacts or common communities and provide with a list of options as you start typing.
• Click “Send” on the top right of the screen to send the mail.

Attachments

To add an attachment to the email, first go to write mail as detailed in the steps above.

• From the “Write Mail” screen, you have the option to either upload a file from your computer or find one already uploaded to the DB Gallery:

• To choose a file from your computer, select “Upload”, browse for the file to attach from the computer and click open.
• When the upload is complete, a thumbnail will show of the attachment.Click on “Send” to send the email.
• To attach a file that you have previously created in DB Primary or uploaded from your computer, click on "Find" and click on the file you wish to attach.
• The following dialogue will appear. Click on the file you wish to attach:

• Click on "Send" to send the email.

Creating Folders

To organise your emails you can create folders and name them as you wish.

• To the left of the screen, click on "Create New Folder". Give the folder a name and confirm by clicking on the tick.

To delete a folder, click on the cross to the right of the folder you created.

• Emails can be dragged from the inbox to folders created by the user.

Adding a New Address to your Contact List

On your homepage click on the email icon on the quicklinks at the top of the screen.

On the 'Inbox' screen click on 'Addresses'.

On the 'My Email Addresses' screen choose 'Add Person'.

Type the name and email address you wish to add and click on 'save'.