HOWTO: LAUSDnet ePals Web Email
LAUSDnet Web Based Email
Web based e-mail uses a web browser such as Mozilla, Netscape or Internet Explorer (IE) to access e-mail. Web sites such as Netscape, Excite, and Yahoo have been offering free web-based e-mail accounts for a few years. LAUSD net offers the same feature from their home page. The advantage of this feature is that you don’t have to configure e-mail software such as Mozilla, MS Outlook, or Eudora with your account information. Therefore you can check you e-mail on any computer that has Internet access and a web browser. Just input your username and password, and check you e-mail!
Getting and using a work email account is mandatory for all staff. We are evaluated by the State annually to determine the percentage of our staff who use their work account. Also, you need your LAUSD account to access new services that the district and the State are posting online. Staff and students can access some of their ePal account information via the new LAUSD Self-Service Console.
Using LAUSDnet ePals Email
Log onto the Internet via any Internet Service Provider (ISP) and point your browser (IE, Mozilla, Netscape) to the LAUSD net homepage (http://www.lausd.kl2.ca.us). On the LAUSD home page select Resources> Email> EPals. On the Jefferson school Intranet, look for any link named ePals or web mail. Select the link. For more information see the ITD ePals FAQ. For ITD support of ePals, call 323-224-2277. Option 6 is for account questions. Option 7 is for ePal questions.
First Time Log on
The new system uses your same username and address, but the password is initially set to your employee number. The default password for students varies, but is at least 8 characters with numbers and letters.
To log in make sure you use lower case letters. Enter your username and password (employee number). Select Yes when prompted about the LAUSD AUP. The next window will ask for the old password (employee number). Then create a new password consisting of at least six-eight numbers and letters and enter it twice. Remember this new password that you created because you will also use it to log on if you dial up LAUSDnet from home.
For your assistance there is an Interactive Tutorial and Teacher Guide posted on your ePal home page. Use the HELP function to learn how to open, delete, save, reply to, forward, and file your e-mail messages. These are the same functions that most e-mail reader use to manage e-mail. Make sure your Logout of the program when you are finished, and then use GO to get back to the school or LAUSDnet home page.
Send Yourself a Test Message
Select Create and fill in the To: window with your address (jleno@lausd.k12.ca.us) and the subject window. Type in a msg. in the body of the text, and click send. See if your account works.
Reply to a Message
Open the message. Select Reply (Reply All if you want to reply t.o all names on the message). Notice that your address and title is already inputted. Place the cursor in the body of the msg. and begin typing. Include enough of the text to make reply meaningful.
Forward a Message
Open a msg. Select Forward. Type in the addresses that you wish to send to, or use the Address book (see below on how to create an Address boo).
Create a Folder
Open a msg. Select "Use this form to create a new folder for this message:". Name the folder. The msg. will be place in it. New folders help you organize your e-mail.
Add an Attachment
Create and address a msg. Select Attachment. Select the file you want to send. Send the file. The reciever must have the software to open this file, however. Zip (compress) files that are in the html format so that they will transfer with their correct links and file properties. Often attaching html files causes them to become corrupted otherwise.
Add a Name to your Address Book
Select Save Address book when msg. is open. This creates an online
address book. You can also include phone, fax and other contact
information when you edit an address record. Personal and Business
email addresses can be stored. The LAUSD address is usually the
business address, but that is not critical.
Creating Email Groups
In your address book, all your contacts should be collected into groups. You can have one group called Main, for example, that you use to all general contacts, and create specialized groups for specific goals. To create a new group it is easier to copy a contact from the Main group and into the new group. If you don't create the Main group first, then when you add contacts to a new group they get removed from the general list of contacts.
Create a Signature
Creating a signature will automatically post your final salutation
at
the end of every message. This feature is a real time-saver. Select
Options and fill in Signature at bottom of form. Typically use address,
phone, fax, and web link. No more then 5 lines. Send a test message to
yourself to see
what the signature looks like and modify it if need be. ePals allows
you to create alternate signatures too.