Semester 2 of 2014 was the first time I had used the 'delay delivery' feature of Outlook. I have found this extremely useful as I have got the students this year to do many ICT activities, such as with Google apps for education and building websites with Weebly, that they have needed access to instructions, passwords, hyperlinks to shared documents, etc delivered to them via email.
There are three key reasons why using a delayed email is useful in emailing students.
1. If the email is timed to arrive exactly when you are about to start the lesson or activity within then students do not have to trawl through a list of emails or search for it. The email will have just arrived and will be at or near the top of their email list.
2. Having composed and 'sent' the email ahead of time means that students will receive it during, or just before, your lesson without you having to do this during the class. This frees up your time for classroom management and teaching while still having the email arrive during the lesson.
3. Having the email arrive when you want it to avoids unwanted distraction from other tasks you want the students to do BEFORE doing the activity linked to the email. It also avoids some students taking it upon themselves to do the work outside of class when you want them to do it during class. For example, it might be a collaborative exercise and you would rather them do this during the lesson with others and do other preliminary research before the lesson.
To delay delivery you first compose an email as you would normally do:
There are three key reasons why using a delayed email is useful in emailing students.
1. If the email is timed to arrive exactly when you are about to start the lesson or activity within then students do not have to trawl through a list of emails or search for it. The email will have just arrived and will be at or near the top of their email list.
2. Having composed and 'sent' the email ahead of time means that students will receive it during, or just before, your lesson without you having to do this during the class. This frees up your time for classroom management and teaching while still having the email arrive during the lesson.
3. Having the email arrive when you want it to avoids unwanted distraction from other tasks you want the students to do BEFORE doing the activity linked to the email. It also avoids some students taking it upon themselves to do the work outside of class when you want them to do it during class. For example, it might be a collaborative exercise and you would rather them do this during the lesson with others and do other preliminary research before the lesson.
To delay delivery you first compose an email as you would normally do:
Next, click on the 'options' tab then click 'delay delivery, a 'properties' dialogue box opens up:
In the 'properties' dialogue box select the options you want, I decided on the following morning at 9:00am as can be seen to the left.
Click 'send' as normal and it will be sent at the specified date and time.