Hello everyone, I rather unimportant thought to came to me when I waking up this morning and thought I'd poll you guys here at DI. For those who have studied abroad (outside of the United States) by distance or correspondence, do foreign universities give their students university e-mail addresses like we get here in the States? By the same token, do domestic universities give distance students e-mail addresses here in the States? With all of the other free opportunities (gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.), I don't need another account, but I'm simply curious about how this custom may vary from one country to the next. Messdiener
My current university (U.S.) does issue its online students a university email address; however, I rarely use or check it. So far, my professors have utilized the Blackboard mail system, not university email.
I set all of my university email accounts (minus my work account) to forward to my gmail and never log into them directly. I still have an active account from one of the schools I studied abroad at, they never shut it down. I had an email account at the other school I studied abroad at, but it was closed when I stopped attending. Harvard issues email accounts to HES students that are registered for classes regardless of the delivery method.
Ah, thanks for the info. For some reason, I don't see any signature line. Is there some setting I have to change to see them? As I am new to the board, I'm not sure how all of this works! Messdiener
I don't know about outside of the US, but the college I work for does provide students with emails, which are hosted by Microsoft Live@edu. I'm also a student at APUS and they now give students email addresses through Live@edu.
In the top right corner of the page you will see a button labelled "settings." This will lead you to the adjustment you need to make.
Great Britain Sweden Germany Each of the issued email addresses. But they were no .edu accounts, instead local domain extensions.
In the United States, most solely distance learning institution do not issue email account to the student. The following schools I had/have encounter: Troy University: YES Southern Methodist University: YES Georgetown University: YES Capella University: YES (recently, not before December 2010) Thomas Edison State College: NO Louisiana State University: NO Aspen University: NO
My recent experience: Charter Oak did not, GW did, A.T. Still I don't remember, SMC did not, Memphis did, Northeastern did.
Embry-Riddle - Do not remember University of Oklahoma - Do not remember A.T. Still - e-mail for life; currently outsources to Gmail but still uses a atsu.edu suffix (also gives me library access for life which rocks) Colorada State University-Global Campus - outsources to Gmail, all campus correspondance goes through it
My university (U.S.) which has B&M campuses and online gave me an email account, but I almost never check it because I get alot of university spam that doesn't relate directly to me or my program of study. (Library construction, and university alumni updates) All of my online instructors get ahold of me using my personal email, and the others I see face to face in the classroom.
University of Illinois Springfield does issue an email account to students who are online-only, and uses that email account for all official communications. They also use it to send things like severe weather alerts and notices of roads being closed on the campus... not much use to me here in North Carolina!
The New York Institute of Technology gave all of us NYIT email accounts. They sub it out though GMAIL, under the NYIT name. The account is ours forever. If an account lays dormant for a certain amount of time they will close it but other than that we get to keep'em! I don't really use it, although I like having the EDU email address, yes it's stupid I know.