Comments on: Organizing!

By: Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:18:02 +0000

Hmm. I’m with Kate, I can’t see having a folder for each student. I do like your system though. Mine isn’t quite that organized: 0809_Students, MathTeam, StudentCouncil, Grad_School, everything else just stays in the inbox. Although I do archive quite often (low storage quotas).

I really wish my school email account had the ability to add tags. Now that would be useful.

By: samjshah

samjshah — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:02:39 +0000

Oh, I have a lot, lot less. (Which makes it easier to deal with.) Last year I had about 50.

But there was also ridiculous amounts of email, and I started throwing them in different folders based on the classes the students were in. Some students had 100+ email messages in their folders, by the end. (Others had only three or four.) But my school’s email program isn’t good for searching so I *had* to make separate folders.

Maybe I should also say that the way one organizes their email folder says as much about the school as it does about the teacher, too.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:14:26 +0000

Hm, how many students do you have? Somehow I don’t see setting up 120 folders, one for each kid. I just have a folder called Students0809 (for this year) where I dump everything. Then if I need to refer back to emails about a specific kid, I just run a search for their name and it pops up all the related emails. It works fine for me.

Otherwise my folder structure doesn’t look much different from yours. I have a few additional ones, like “schedules”, where I throw things like music lesson and other schedules that tell me when kids are excused from class, and “professional development” where I keep correspondence related to workshops and the like.