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Question: What email list services does DoIT offer to faculty and staff?

Thursday, September 07, 2006


Answer: Classlists and WiscList are two popular services that enable UW faculty and staff to create and use email lists:

Classlists
Instructors automatically receive email classlists that are updated with student enrollment data six times per day, seven days per week, throughout the semester. Any changes to a course’s enrollment are reflected automatically in the classlist, removing the hassle from managing a large course’s email list. The classlist utility, available at http://classlists.wisc.edu, allows instructors to add guests to lists, change list security settings, and send emails. Instructors can also email an entire course, members of cross-listed courses, and specific sections within a course. The Help Desk can help instructors and students with Classlist problems related to activation, sending and receiving messages, and more.

WiscList
The WiscList service is an alternative to maintaining large, unwieldy lists of names and email addresses. With WiscList, faculty or staff members can create and administer their own personalized lists. Use WiscList to send newsletters, communicate with coworkers, moderate discussion lists, and more. List administrators can decide who can send to a list, moderate list postings, and list security settings. WiscList can generate reports on list membership, archive messages, change the look and feel of messages, administer surveys, and automatically maintain a list.

Have questions about email lists or other computer issues? Visit helpdesk.wisc.edu or contact the Help Desk by phone (264-HELP) or email (help@doit.wisc.edu).