
In GEOG 588, we will use Canvas and e-mail to communicate in various ways. Please read through these sections even if you think you have seen them before in other courses, as the guidelines for this class are slightly different from what you may have seen elsewhere.
E-mail is a critically important communications channel for this course, especially for private messages and course announcements. Please make sure to check your PSU email daily for important class communications. You can use Canvas email (inbox) to send me emails.
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Please use e-mail only for private messages to instructors or fellow students. Canvas Discussion comments are preferred for most communications because everyone can see and benefit from them, and you can get help or insight from anyone in the class.
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Please make sure you have set up forwarding for Canvas e-mail. You should have already done this on earlier in this Orientation, but if not, please visit the "Setting Up Communications" box on the Course Management System page.
Communications from the University and from the World Campus
Occasionally, the University or the World Campus needs to communicate with students. To do so, they use the @psu.edu e-mail address that each registered student has been given and not Canvas course e-mail.
In addition, a letter, in PDF format, that reports your final course grade will be automatically generated and sent to your @psu.edu e-mail address.
So it is important that you regularly monitor your @psu.edu e-mail account.
- To monitor your @psu.edu e-mail, you can use the Penn State web mail system, described here.
- However, I recommend that you simply have your @psu.edu e-mail forwarded to your preferred e-mail account. You can control the forwarding of your @psu.edu e-mail account by going to the ITS secure server.
Communications
- Post in the Personal Introduction Discussion Forum in CANVAS. Please include information about yourself:
- What do you do when you are not taking this class?
- What is your interest in this course?
- What place in the world would you most like to be posting from right now?