Reading/Composing Email
Nexus e-mail is configured to send and receive e-mail from other Nexus e-mail users:
- Students can e-mail other students' Nexus e-mail accounts from within Nexus.
- Students can forward incoming Nexus e-mail to an external (non-@mail.nexus.uwinnipeg.ca) e-mail address.
- Students cannot e-mail from inside Nexus to an external (non-@mail.nexus.uwinnipeg.ca) e-mail address (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail).
- Students cannot receive e-mail sent from an external (non-@mail.nexus.uwinnipeg.ca) e-mail address (e.g. Gmail, Hotmail) to a Nexus e-mail address.
Viewing your Nexus E-mail:
Access your Nexus e-mail from the "Email" icon in the notifications section of the Minibar. The Email Inbox opens.
![Location of Email icon](/student-learning-technologies/images/ComposeEmail1.png)
Navigating the Inbox:
- Messages listed in a Bold font are unread messages. Opening an unread message will change its status to "read".
- Click the Subject of a message to view the e-mail in either a new window or a preview pane, which appears below the list of messages. You can change your settings to choose your viewing preference by clicking Settings in the top right corner of your Inbox.
![Location of e-mail settings and what unread messages look like](/student-learning-technologies/images/ComposeEmail2.png)
NOTE: In the Settings area, there are Forwarding Options that allow you to forward received mail to another e-mail account. Keep in mind that:
- Not all mail may forward successfully, and
- You must return to Nexus e-mail to reply to Nexus messages, even though you may have viewed a forwarded copy of the message, or received notification about the message, elsewhere.
- E-mails sent from external (non-@nexus.uwinnipeg.ca addresses) to @nexus.uwinnipeg.ca e-mail addresses will be rejected by the e-mail server and will not be received by the recipient.
Composing an E-mail Message
- Log in to Nexus and click on your course name in the My Courses widget.
- In the course menu, click Classlist.
- Click on a classmate or instructor's name. A compose window opens with the internal, Nexus e-mail address of that user already filled in. Note: The title of the course is automatically filled in the subject line, but you may add additional information there to specify your subject.
![How to select a single recipient of a Nexus e-mail message](/student-learning-technologies/images/ComposeEmail3.png)
- Type your message in the Body text field of the e-mail.
- Click the "Send" button.
![Navigating the "Compose new message" window](/student-learning-technologies/images/ComposeEmail4.png)
Compose a message to more than one participant:
- Log in to Nexus and click on your course name in the My Courses widget.
- In the course menu, click Classlist.
- Click the empty checkboxes next to the specific classmate(s) and/or instructor(s) to whom you want to simultaneously send the same message.
- Click the "Email" icon. A new window opens with the internal, Nexus e-mail addresses of the participants already filled in.
- Type your message in the Body text field of the E-mail.
- Click "Send".