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I have been using Nings for 3 years at the middle school level in US History classes. I am having a problem this year that I have never experienced in the past. My students are not allowed to access personal email accounts during the school day. Bec…
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I have been using Nings for 3 years at the middle school level in US History classes. I am having a problem this year that I have never experienced in the past. My students are not allowed to access personal email accounts during the school day. Because I wanted our Nings to be private, I usually set up a generic email account through gmail. In the past I have been able to send the Ning invitations to this email account and customize it by adding a + sign. For example, I would send an invitation… Continue
Posted on November 4, 2009 at 8:04am —
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Are you familiar with the gmail+ trick? If my email address is historyclass@gmail.com, then historyclass+student1@gmail.com is a valid email address, but actually delivers to historyclass@gmail.com. You could do historyclass+student2@gmail.com for the second student, etc. You'd have to set up all accounts for them, but that should be OK.
Will that work for you?