SU email
Your @syr.edu account can be accessed from a web browser as well as from an email client. The web address is https://sumail.syr.edu/
The account can forward messages to another email address. However, some students report that not all their incoming mail is being forwarded. Thus, you should still check your @syr.edu email daily. In addition, SU strongly advises all instructors to communicate with their students using only the @syr.edu account.
Departmental mailing lists
The list addresses are [list name]@listserv.syr.edu where [list name] is one of the following.
Four disjoint lists for faculty:
- MATH-TTFACULTY: the tenured and tenure-track faculty
- MATH-NTTFACULTY: full-time teaching faculty
- MATH-POSTDOCS: postdocs
- MATH-PTFACULTY: part-time faculty
Combined faculty lists:
- MATH-ALLFACULTY: all four of the lists above
- MATH-FTFACULTY: both MATH-TTFACULTY and MATH-NTTFACULTY
Four lists for graduate students:
- MATH-TAGRADS: All math department teaching assistants (TAs)
- MATH-MATHGRADS: Graduate students in Mathematics programs only
- MATH-MATHEDGRADS: Graduate students in Mathematics Education programs only
- MATH-FELLOWS: Math graduate students on a fellowship
Other:
- MATH-STAFF: those in 215 Carnegie, except the chairperson
- MATH-EMERITI: emeriti faculty
Everyone:
- MATH-EVERYONE: MATH-ALLFACULTY, MATH-STAFF, MATH-EMERITI, MATH-TAGRADS, MATH-MATHGRADS, MATH-MATHEDGRADS, MATH-FELLOWS (others by request)
Classroster email
There are multiple ways to send an email to all students in your class.
Using MySlice: go to Faculty Center, click the Roster icon on the left, scroll to the bottom, and click Notify All Students. This opens text boxes for subject and body of the message, which is sent to all students via bcc (and to you as well). MySlice does not support attachments or rich text content.
Using Blackboard, you can either post an Announcement or send a Message to all course users (or some subset of them) and select the option of sending a copy by email. The emailed copy contains the text of Announcement/Message and a link to view it on Blackboard. Any attachments can only be accessed on Blackboard. In most cases an Announcement is preferable, for the following reasons:
- Announcements have a subject line, which is included in the emailed copy, with a prefix of the form “MAT.397.M001.FALL24.Calculus III (nnnnn.nnn)”. Messages have no subject, and the emailed copy only says “[Instructor] sent you a new message in [course]”
- Announcements produce a pop-up notification for recipients the first time they enter the course. Messages are easier to miss in the Blackboard interface.
Blackboard’s design principle is that the email copy is mostly a notification which prompts users to open the Announcement or Message in Blackboard. They are not meant to by replied to like regular email. But if a student hits “reply” anyway, then (a) in case of Announcement their email goes to whoever posted the announcement; (b) in case of Message the email goes to an unmonitored mailbox and the student will get an automatic reply saying they did not reach anyone.
Google Workspace email
In addition to your [netid]@syr.edu email you also have a separate [netid]@g.syr.edu email which is associated with Google Workspace: Gmail, Google Drive, and other web apps by Google. To log in, go to mail.google.com and enter your g.syr.edu email; this will bring up the standard NetId login screen. For more, see Google Workspace at SU