An Accessible On Ramp

1. An Accessible On Ramp To The Information Highway

2. Lesson 3C Email: A Tour of Gmail

3. Sign In to Gmail Go to the Gmail Website just like you did before: • Open your browser and put the address in the address bar at the top of the page. • You can use www.google.com and then click on the Gmail link at the top of the page.

4. A Quicker Way to Get to Gmail • You can go directly to Gmail by typing gmail.google.com or • www.google.com/gmail

5. Sign In • Find the Sign In box on the top right side of the page. • Type your login name in the first box. • Type your password in the next box. • Click the Sign In button

6. Your Gmail Homepage Your Gmail will open showing your Inbox.

7. Your Gmail Inbox The inbox is in the middle of the page and has a list of your mail in it.

8. Page Top Information Across the top of the page are several important sections: Links to other Google Services Information about your account and Sign Out Search your mail, or search the Web.

9. Links to Other Google Functions The links take you to Google Calendar and other Google services. Click on More to see all the choices. You don’t need any of these for Gmail.

10. Account Information Look at the right end of the top of the page. First, you will see your Gmail address (your user name). A link called Settings lets you make adjustments in how Gmail works. Help takes you to Google’s help manual.

11. Sign Out At the far right is a link called Sign Out. Click on Sign Out to close your Gmail account. You should sign out every time you finish if you want to keep your Gmail private. Always sign out if you are on a public or shared computer.

12. Finishing with Gmail Clicking on Sign Out will take you back to the Welcome to Gmail page. Close the browser tab by clicking on the Xon the tab, Or close the browser by clicking on the X in the top left corner of the screen.

13. Left Gmail Menu The menu on the left side helps you use Gmail. We will only talk about the most important menu choices. Contacts is your address book. The Compose Mail button lets you write an email to someone. Sent has copies of all the email you have sent to people already. Drafts has copies of messages you have written (or started) but have not sent yet.

14. Making the Menu Easier to Use • You can take away some of the menu items if you do not use them. • Look at the bottom of the main page: • You can turn off Chat and Buzz. That will make them disappear from the menu. (You can put them back later, if you want them.)

15. Turn off Chat • Click on turn off chat • Chat will disappear from the left menu. • The bottom has changed, too.

16. Page without Chat Chat is not in the left menu any more. The bottom choice has changed to turn on chat.

17. Turn off Buzz • Click on turn off buzz • This time, a new page opens. • The bottom has changed, too.

18. Disable Buzz Click on the bottom red link. Don’t worry, you can get Buzz back later if you want it.

19. Are you sure? Click on the Yes, delete my profile and posts. This won’t matter if you have never used Buzz.

20. A Simpler Left Menu Now you have a simpler menu to work with. As you learn more, you can make the page fancier and add options. For now, we will just work on sending and receiving email.