Make your own fruit salad

Dear colleagues of the Upper School,

Thank you very much for your positive reaction to the PD on Outlook on Wednesday.

I was very pleased that so many of you selected the fruit which suited your palate and assembled the salad which you felt you needed.

Many questions arose, naturally, and I shall answer some of them here:

Is there an expiry limit on Outlook email as in FirstClass?
No, the storage space available in Outlook makes deletion unnecessary.

Is there an email History function by which one can monitor who has opened a message?
Not like FC does it, but there are email tracking functions which require a degree of cooperation from the person being tracked. Go to File > Options > Mail, scroll down to Tracking. As you can see, there are options to request Read Receipts, but also to decline to respond to them.

If one sends a message one regrets, can it be unsent?
This function is called Recall and is imperfect in my experience. It is advisable carefully to read everything before you send, and I recommend  the following rule:

If in ANY doubt about a message, delete it and speak to the person face to face.

which has saved me from indiscretion on many occasions.
But accidents will happen.
In case of emergency, Google: recall message outlook 2013

Can I use the online version of Outlook?
Yes, that is possible and it will reproduce many of the functions of the computer program, but like all of the apps in Office 365, the online service is a reduced version.

What if I want to use an Apple computer?
Even though the school will supply to every US teacher an excellent Windows laptop, Mac devotees will be able to use their own machine if they desire and can replicate the standards required of the other teachers.
We are developing advice for our Mac users amongst the students and teachers. If you would like to contribute to this project, please contact Steve and attend the meeting in 008 on Monday 1 June at 12.00.

Why does my Outlook not look like the one in the video?
Some of you said you liked this bar at the bottom of Outlook, rather than the compact version. Or vice versa. See below.

Non-compact navigation

Compact Navigation

To make this change, go to View > Folder Pane > Options...

It's helpful to play with a number of other View options:

I like the calendar summary pane at the right of my mailbox which is achieved with the To-Do Bar option.

What about the second charger we are expecting?

These have been ordered and should be with every teacher who has a Yoga laptop by the start of next school year.

How will I connect my laptop to the projector in my classroom?
That will be the topic of my next blogpost.

Have a great weekend,

Steve