Different instructors may have slightly different standards for e-mail. Standards 1 through 7 below apply specifically to all CIS courses that you take online and should be followed whenever sending e-mail to any of your CIS online instructors.

Every MSJC student is given a free email account which can be accessed by going to http://my.msjc.edu.

All MSJC students are expected to check their e-mail regularly (every day if possible) and to respond promptly to any messages for which a response is indicated.

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT - When submitting CIS course assignments via e-mail please comply with all seven of the following standards. SCROLL DOWN and read carefully:

1. Be sure to send e-mail to the instructor for the specific section of CIS course that you are taking. Enter the instructor's e-mail address in the "TO" block of the "send" window of your e-mail program. Names and e-mail addresses of the current CIS instructors are indicated below:



Bill Bennett- BBennett@msjc.edu
Bil Bergin- BBergin@msjc.edu
Dwight Duffie- DDuffie@msjc.edu
Don Jenkins - DJenkins@msjc.edu
Jonathan Leavitt - JLeavitt@msjc.edu
Micah Orloff- MOrloff@msjc.edu
Guy Reams- GReams@msjc.edu
Glenn Stevenson - GStevenson@msjc.edu


2. VERY IMPORTANT: The information for the "SUBJECT" block of the "send" window of your e-mail program should start with the Course Number followed by the assignment # ("Worksheet1", "Essay2" or whatever) and then your first initial + your last name. For example, the "SUBJECT" section of the Chuck Berry Worksheet1 e-mail for course CSIS 101 should look like this:



The "SUBJECT" block for all CIS course e-mail messages should follow this format, so the instructor can see that the message relates to a specific course (in this case CSIS 101), refers to a specific assignment, and is from a particular student.


3. Even though the information below may have been included in the "address" section of your e-mail message, the actual text (information you put in the body of the message) of ALL e-mail messages should begin with:

TO: (put instructor's name here)
FROM: (put your full name here)
DATE: (put current date here)
RE: (put subject of the e-mail here)


Follow this link to see Chuck Berry's Worksheet1 EXAMPLE.


4. Follow the format of the Chuck Berry examples. Although the content of your assignments should reflect your own perceptions, the way your assignments are organized should follow the format of the examples.
 
5. The BEST way to create an e-mail message is to to compose and spell check it first using your word processing program, then COPY and PASTE the complete message from your word processing program into the e-mail document that you want to send.
   PLEASE NOTE: The only "attachments" CIS instructors will accept are documents in pdf format or MS Word documents, but the instructor really would prefer to receive all assignments as plain text e-mail documents and NOT as attachments. That makes assignments easier for the instructor to process and respond to.
 
6. Please DO NOT use any e-mail program "format features" (such as bold, italic, underline, colored text or different fonts). Different e-mail programs on different computers see formatting differently and what looks good on your computer may look really strange to someone with a different e-mail program on another computer. It is almost always best to send CIS related e-mail as plain text.
 
7. Save a copy, for your own records, of all e-mail sent to the CIS instructor. The easiest way to do this is simply to cc yourself each time you send an e-mail message. That way, if any e-mail is lost, all you need to do is send your copy of the message again.

The instructor will reply to all assignments received via e-mail by sending back a copy of the original message, indicating the number of points earned and making whatever specific suggestions might be called for.

Important!!! When responding to any e-mail sent to you by the instructor, please include a copy of his/her message (all messages relating to any particular subject - aka "continuing the discussion thread") as that helps the instructor remember the context and reply more promptly.