Duration and cost of the Course

There are 4 two-hour lessons. The cost of the course, including the manual, is $55.00

Prerequisites

You must have completed these courses: Introduction to Computers and either Computing Skills or Word Processing.

E-mail Programs

This course is suitable for students who have one of these e-mail programs: Windows Live Mail (on either Windows 7 or Windows Vista computers) Windows Mail (on Windows Vista computers) Outlook Express (on Windows XP computers) This course does not teach G-mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or other webmail program.

You will receive –

the course manual. a set of exercise pictures for insertion and attachment to e-mail.

During the course you will learn –

the basics of using the e-mail program to send and receive messages, including attachments. to enhance your emails by adding pictures and by changing the style, size and colour of text.

Here are the skills you will practise

Open and close the e-mail program Connect to and disconnect from the Internet Write, send and receive e-mail messages Use the Forward and Reply To options when sending e-mail Attach files to an e-mail Save and open attachments received Set up an Address Book (a.k.a. Contact List) Add or change details in an Address Book Change the layout of the e-mail program's window. Create subfolders for sorting and storing incoming and outgoing mail. Organise both sent and received e-mail into custom folders. Add simple formatting to an e-mail – fonts, colours, bulleted and numbered lists. Print out an e-mail message. Insert pictures into e-mail.