Nov 12 2008

Making up dummy or multiple email accounts for students

Published by Mike Temple at 5:23 pm under Customising the look, Getting started

If you want to sign up your students for a web 2.0 application and this requires an email account, simply use your free gmail account

GMail

You can register different unique account names numerous times using your own e-mail address by doing this:

emailaddress+1@gmail.com
emailaddress+2@gmail.com
emailaddress+3@gmail.com
emailaddress+4@gmail.com
emailaddress+5@gmail.com

Carey Pohanka suggested that you could use the student’s name instead of a number, and then you won’t have any problems identifying them

emailaddress+student name@gmail.com

I didn’t know that trick, many thanks

All activity the websites under these accounts will be sent to your original, derivative e-mail (i.e. emailaddress@gmail.com). This way, you’ll be able to give each student a unique application account, while also being able to monitor their account’s activity.


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2 Responses to “Making up dummy or multiple email accounts for students”

  1.   # Carey Pohankaon 13 Nov 2008 at 7:47 pm

    I use this all the time! I use it with the +student name so when the emails come to my account I know who it is about.

  2.   # Mike Templeon 13 Nov 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Brilliant - I didn’t know that trick, many thanks Carey

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