Using Academic Email Groups

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Note: This article documents a system which is coded to use abbreviations for legacy terms "Traditional and Nontraditional" - as such the documentation below documents the original purpose of these groups. As this system is updated or migrated in the future these groupings will be either updated or eliminated as appropriate. 
 
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Overview

Academic Email Groups are available which provide access to email specific groups of students by School, Department, Major or Advisor at LETU. Below you will find guidelines for using these groups.

Refresh interval: These groups are currently refreshed overnight each day so their group membership may change as CX academic registration information changes.

If you have needs to email groups of students not represented by any options below please make a request at https://servicedesk.letu.edu 

Authorization to send to Academic Email Groups

To email an Academic School, Department or Advisor group below you must be on the authorized list of senders to email that group.

School/Department Groups: By default authorized senders for School or Department groups include the Dean of the school and anyone the Dean has authorized to send to these groups.
If you do not currently have access to send to a School/Department group below and feel you should be able to, please contact the Dean of your School.

 Advisor Groups:  Advisors have permission by default to their Advisee email list.
If you do not currently have access to send to an Advisor group below and feel you should be able to, please contact the University Registrar. 

How to Email Academic Email Groups

Use BCC Field for discreetness: To email an Academic Email Group, place the email address of the group in the BCC field of your email client. This ensures recipients do not try to accidentally "Reply-To-All" to the group which will fail since only limited individuals have permission to email these groups. We recommend using your own email address as the "To" address to avoid the email looking "unaddressed." If you are using Outlook 2010 and do not see a BCC field, Open a new e-mail message, and then click "Options." In the Show Fields area, click Bcc. For instructions for other versions of Outlook click here.

Addressing Email: For clarity of the Global University Address book, the groups below are not listed in the University Email Address Book. In order to email each group, manually type it in the BCC line of your email client, including the @letu.edu portion of the email address after consulting the list of email groups below.

Sign Your Name: All emails send to bulk groups should be signed by an individual faculty or staff member and provide appropriate contact information (i.e. no emails should be signed "IT Department" or similar). This is to reinforce to students that authorized LETU communications will be signed by a Faculty or Staff member they can contact and help them distinguish such emails from phishing or spam email.

Graphics Standards: Be sure your email follows the Graphics Standards for Email including the Guidelines for Email Signatures if one is used.

Set an Alternate Reply-To Address if desired: Sometimes you may wish replies to an email to be sent to an alternate individual or general department email address. To do this in outlook, when you are composing the email message, select the "Options" Tab and Choose "Direct Replies To" and in the dialogue box which is presented fill in the email address you want replies to be sent to in the Delivery options / Have replies sent to field. Click here for a screen shot of this process.

How to determine the Email Address of your Academic Email Group

Academic Groups include School, Department, Major, Program, and Advisor Groups.

Advisor Groups

Advisor email groups are formed from the Advisor's LETNET username appended to the prefix: SG-STU-AADV- (for NonTrad Academic Advisors) or SG-STU-FADV- (for Trad Faculty Advisors). For example:

  • SG-STU-AADV-JaneSmith@letu.edu would email all advisees of NonTrad Academic Advisor Jane Smith.
  • SG-STU-FADV-JohnSmith@letu.edu would email all advisees of Trad Faculty Advisor John Smith.
  • Special Case: If an Academic Advisor advises students for two or more schools, there will be additional groups which can be used to email only advisees in that specific school. These groups will be the same as the groups above except with the School abbreviation (see School abbreviations in the table below under School/Dept Groups) appended after an additional hyphen. As an example, SG-STU-AADV-JaneSmith-SOED@letu.edu would email all advisees of NonTrad Academic Advisor Jane Smith who are enrolled in majors within the School of Education.

School, Department, Major and Program Groups

Academic Email Groups are formed from consistent patterns of School, Department, Major, and/or Trad/NonTrad and Grad/Undergrad codes appended together to form an email address

To construct your Academic Group's Email address, use the format below including only the bolded CODES in each table - remember to include the necessary hyphens. As an example: SG-STU-SEET-ENGT-GR@letu.edu  

Prefix
-
Audience
-
School
-
Dept
(Dept can omitted if emailing entire school) 
-

Program or Major
 (Program/Major can be omitted if emailing entire school or department)

Domain Suffix
SG

(An LETU-wide
standard which
represents "Security Group" and designates that you should expect the email address to distribute to a wide range of individuals.)
 
- STU

 
(Designates that the recipients in the group will be students.)
-

AERO (School of Aviation and Aeronautical Science)

NURS (School of Nursing)

PSYC (School of Psychology and Counseling)

SAAS (School of Arts and Sciences)

SBUS (School of Business and Technology)

SEET (School of Engineering and Engineering Technology)

SOED (School of Education)

SOTV (School of Theology and Vocation)

 

 

- (See list of Department Codes below) -

UG (all Undergraduate students in a department)

GR (all Graduate students in a department)

TRAD (all Traditional students in a department)

NONTRAD (all NonTraditional students in a department)

 If a Major Code is inserted in this position it will email an entire major.

For a list of major codes, find the codes in
parentheses next to the major headings in
the catalog under each school at 

http://www.letu.edu/academics/catalog/

@LETU.EDU

You may leave off progressive right-most columns of information to email a broader group if you have permission to do so. For instance:

  • SG-STU-SEET-ENGT-GR@letu.edu would email all Graduate-level students in the Engineering Design department in the School of Engineering.
  • SG-STU-SEET-ENGT@letu.edu would email all students (Graduate and Undergraduate) in the Engineering Design department in the School of Engineering.
  • SG-STU-SEET@letu.edu would email all students (Graduate and Undergraduate) in the School of Engineering.

Major Codes may be substitued for Program Codes (UG/GR) to email all members of a specific major. For instance: 

  • SG-STU-SEET-ENGT-MJT@letu.edu would email all members of the Materials Joining Major in the Engineering Design department in the School of Engineering.

 

 

 

 

Table of Department Codes

School of Aeronautical Science (AERO)    
  Flight Science AERF
  Applied Aviation Science AVTC
School of Nursing (NURS)    
  Kinesiology KINE
  Nursing NURS
School of Psychology & Counseling (PSYC)    
  Psychology PSYC
School of Arts and Sciences (SAAS)    
  American Studies in DC AMER
  Australia Studies Progra AUST
  Biology BIOL
  China Studies CHIN
  Chemistry & Physics CHPH
  Contemporary Music CMPR
  Criminal Justice CRIJ
  English ENGL
  Focus on the Family FMST
  Handong Global Univ HDGU
  History & Political Sci. HPS
  Jerusalem University JMUC
  Film Studies in Latin Am LAFS
  Latin American Studies LASP
  Mathematics MATH
  Middle East Studies Prog MESP
  Music MUSC
  New Zealand Educ Abr Ntw NZEA
  Russian Studies Program RUSS
  Studies in Oxford SSIO
  Study Abroad STAB
  Uganda Studies Program UGAN
  Univ of South Queensland USQT
  Washington Journalism WAJC
School of Business (SBUS)    
  Business BUSI
  Computer Science COSC
School of Engineering and Engineering Technology (SEET)    
  Engineering ENGR
  Engineering Technology ENGT
School of Education (SOED)    
  Teacher Education EDUC
School of Theology & Vocation (SOTV)    
  THEO THEO

Major Codes

For a list of major Codes, find the codes in parentheses next to the major headings in the catalog under each school at http://www.letu.edu/academics/catalog/

 

Questions?

If you do not see the Department or Major code you are looking for in the resources above or if you have any other questions please make a request for assistance at https://servicedesk.letu.edu

 

Technical information:
The "SG" portion of the email address is an LETU-wide standard which represents "Security Group" and designates that you should expect the email address to distribute to a wide range of individuals.
The "STU-" portion designates that the recipients in the group will be students.

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