Digital-Divide/C2/Compose-Options-for-Email/English

Title of script: Compose Options for Emails.

Author: Spoken Tutorial Team

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide 1 - Title	Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Compose Options for Emails.
Slide 2 - Learning objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn about: The email recipients, namely, To, Cc, Bcc. Format the email text Attach files to emails Share files via Google Drive Insert a photo or link into an email and about the Compose window options.
Slide 3: Pre-requisites	For this tutorial, you will need - a working Internet connection and a Web browser I will be using Firefox web browser
Open Firefox and type http://gmail.com	Let's begin. Open your web browser and type http://gmail.com
Login to gmail Show login page with blank username and password text boxes Show login page with username Enter london0808 and click “Sign in” button	The Login page opens. Enter your username and password in the respective text boxes. If the Login page opens with the username. This means that you have already accessed this account from your machine. Enter the password and click on “Sign in” button. We are in our Gmail page.
Click on “Compose”	Now, let us look at the options available for writing an email. So, first let us click on “Compose” button. The Compose window opens up.
Mouse over @ Recipients	The To segment is where we specify the recipients.
Point to : To, Cc, Bcc	It has 3 options, To, Cc and Bcc. Cc stands for Carbon Copy and Bcc stands for Blind Carbon Copy.
Slide Here, show a screenshot of To field with 1 email-id	We have to add the email address of the person to whom we are sending the email in the To field. Here’s a screenshot.
Slide Here, show a screenshot of To field with more than 1 email-id	If we want to send the same email to more than 1 person, simply add the email ids in the field To. Here’s a screenshot.
Slide Here, show a screenshot of To and Cc fields with more than 1 email-id	Use Cc option to mark a copy of the email to others. In Cc option, all the recipients marked in To and Cc fields can see all the other recipients. Here’s a screenshot.
Slide Here, show a screenshot of To and Bcc fields with more than 1 email-id	We can also use Bcc option to mark a blind copy of the email to others. In this option, the recipients in To and Cc cannot see the recipients added in Bcc. The recipient in the Bcc can see the To and Cc recipients but not the other Bcc recipients. The sender of the mail can see the complete recipients list. Here’s a screenshot.
Slide – Important Note	Important Note : We can add any number of email ids in the recipients field - To, Cc and Bcc. But the maximum limit is 500 recipients per day. Each mail id has to be separated by a space or comma or colon.
Switch to Gmail	Let us now switch back to our Gmail Compose window. By default, the cursor is in the To field.
Enter the mail id's in To, Cc & Bcc	Let's enter the recipient addresses as follows- In To field, lets give the email id as ray.becky.0808@gmail.com In Cc field, 0808iambecky@gmail.com In Bcc field, stlibreoffice@gmail.com, info@spoken-tutorial.org
Point to Subject Bar	Click in the Subject line and enter a short description for your email.
Click and type- Partner with us	I will type: Partner with us.
Type the message in the content area	In the content area, let us type the message: Spoken Tutorial Project is helping to bridge the digital divide.
	Gmail allows us to do basic formatting to the text in the body of our email. It is displayed by default at the bottom of the Compose window.
Click on the A icon	If not, to access the formatting toolbar, click the Formatting options button. Here we have options such as: different fonts and sizes, bold, italic, underline, text color, align, bulleted and numbered lists and indentation.
Point to each options under Text formatting	These options are exactly like the ones in any word processor application. You may explore these options by yourself.
Pause the recording Format the text as shown below Spoken Tutorial Project is helping to bridge the digital divide.
Resume the recording	This is how I have formatted my text.
Click on the A icon.	To hide the formatting toolbar, click the Formatting options button.
	PAUSE
Point to the respective icons	In the Compose window, there are options for attaching files, photos, links and emoticons.
Point to Attach files & Drive icons	To share files or documents with others, we can use the Attach files or Insert files using Drive options.
Slide: Attachments & Drive	All Mail providers allow to send files as attachment. You can attach files up to 25 megabytes (MB) in size. To send attachments that are larger than this, you can use Insert files using Drive option.
	Let us first attach a pdf file which is less than 1Mb in size.
Click on Attach file icon	Click on the Attach file icon, which looks like a paper clip.
Browse to the Desktop and select myscript.pdf and click on Open.	This will open the file browser. Browse and select the file you want to send via mail. From the Desktop, I will select myscript.pdf and click on Open.
Point to the progress bar.	We can see that our file is getting attached to our mail.
Pause the recording Attach one more file here Resume the recording
Point to the second file you attached	Multiple files can also be attached to the same mail by using Attach files option.
Remove the second file that you attached earlier	To remove a file you've attached to a message, click on the x mark to the right of the file name.
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	Now let us attach a file which is around 50Mb.
Show Desktop -> 50mb zip file	I have a zip file on my Desktop which is around 50Mb file size.
Click on Attach files	Click the Attach files icon once again.
Browse to the Desktop and select zip file and click on Open.	Browse and select the 50Mb zip file and click on Open. We will get a popup message: “The file you are trying to send exceeds the 25mb attachment limit”. And it gives us the option to “Send using Google drive”.
Click on Send using google drive button.	Click on Send using google drive button.
	Let me close this window for a moment.
Click on Insert files using Drive option	Clicking on Insert files using Drive option also gets us to the same window as before.
Point to 3 tabs:	We can see 3 tabs here: My Drive, Shared with me and Upload.
Point to My Drive	By default, the files which are already uploaded, will be available under My Drive tab.
Point to the two files that are seen.	You can see 2 files here. These were shared by Google Team at the time of account creation.
Click on Shared with me	Let’s click on Shared with me tab. Here, we see the message No one's shared any files with you yet! If anyone shares a file with you, it will be available under Shared with Me tab.
Click on Upload tab	Now, click on Upload tab to upload a new file.
Click on Select files from your computer	Click on Select files from your computer button.
Browse>> select file from your machine, >> click on Open button.	Browse and select the file from your machine, that you want to upload and click on Open button.
Point to Add more files button	Click on the Add more files button if you want to add any more files. I will skip this for now and proceed with the single file upload only.
Point to Insert As Point to the buttons Insert as Drive link and Attachment	After the file has been added, we have to mention how it has to be inserted in our mail. Notice 2 buttons at the bottom right, which says, Insert as Drive link and Attachment.
Point to Insert as Drive link button Point to Attachment button	By default, Insert as Drive link is selected. If we select Attachment, then the file will be inserted as an attachment. We will leave it as it is.
Click on Upload button	Click on the Upload button at the bottom left corner of the screen. It will start uploading but this may take some time depending on your internet speed.
Point to the link	Once complete, here, in the content area, we can see a link to the uploaded file.
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	Now let’s click Insert Photo option to insert images in the email.
Point to Insert photo Point to Website address	The Upload Photos window opens. We can upload photos from our computer or by give the website address of the image.
Click on Cancel	For now I don't want to upload any images. So I will click on the Cancel button. You may explore this option on your own.
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Point to and then on Insert Link	The next option is Insert Link. Let’s click on it. The Edit Link dialog box opens.
Point to Text to display	In the Text to display field, type the text that you want as the link. I will type Spoken Tutorial.
Point to Link to section >> Web address	In the Link to section, by default, Web address option is selected.
Type http://spoken-tutorial.org >> click on OK button.	In the text field, type the url as http://spoken-tutorial.org and click on OK button.
Point to the text Spoken Tutorial >> click on it	Now, in the content area, you can see the text Spoken Tutorial and it is hyperlinked. Let me click on the hyperlinked text.
Point to the message “Go to link…..”	A small pop window opens below the text. It says- “Go to link: http://spoken-tutorial.org”.
Point to “Go to link:”	Clicking on the URL displayed, will take you to the Spoken Tutorial website’s homepage.
Point to Change | Remove	To change the URL or remove the link, we can click on Change or Remove options, respectively.
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Point to Insert emoticon	We can also insert various pictorial representations with the help of this emoticon icon. Use this feature in your email communication whenever required.
Point to “Saved” option Point to the Drafts folder	Notice the text Saved, just before the Trash icon. Whenever we add or remove content, our email will be auto-saved in our default Drafts folder. This is very helpful to retrieve our typed message, in case of a power failure or Internet disconnection.
Point to “Trash” option	If we want to discard this message, click on the Trash icon. This action will delete the email from the Drafts folder, as well.
Point to More Options >> Click on it	Click on the More options button, which is next to the Trash icon. Default to full-screen option will make the compose window bigger. Label – We will learn about this feature in future tutorials. Plain text mode option will clear all the formatting we did before and convert the mail to plain text. Print option will send the composed mail to the default configured printer. Check Spelling will do spell-check of the typed content.
Click on the Send button.	We are now ready to send our mail. Click on the Send button.
Point to the message	We get the following message on the screen- These Drive files aren't shared with the recipient. This is because we did not share the file with the people who are marked on this email.
Click on Share & Send button.	Click on Share & Send button.
Point to “View Message” >> Click	On the screen, we will see either of the two messages: “Your message is sending” or “Your message has been sent.” To view the sent mail, click on View Message link.
Point to various options	We can see the content of the email which we sent here. Let us cross-check one-by-one. Here are the attachments and here is the URL link.
Point to the inverted triangle >> click on it >> point to To, Cc, Bcc	Below the mail address, there is an inverted triangle that show the header details. Let me click on it. We can see the email ids of all the recipients in the To, Cc and Bcc fields.
	Let us see how the email will appear to the recipients.
Switch to the Cc recipient account	Now lets have a look at the recipient account, who was marked in Cc.
Click on Show Details >> Point to To, Cc and Bcc recipients.	Here is the message. Click on Show Details. It displays the To and Cc recipients, but not the Bcc recipients.
Show – one of the Bcc mail id account	This is the mail id of one of the recipient marked in Bcc. You can see the message which is sent now. Let me open this to read.
Click on Show Details >> Point to To, Cc and Bcc recipients.	Click on Show Details. You can see the To, Cc and Bcc recipient details.
Switch back to ray.becky0808 gmail	Let me come back to the Sender’s gmail account.
Point to the 2 recipients	Look over here, we mentioned 2 recipients in the Bcc.
Switch to the Bcc recipient again	But here, we can see only one email id. The other one is not visible. This is how the Bcc feature works.
	Hope you are able to understand the differences clearly.
Slide 7 : Summary	This brings us to the end of this tutorial. Let us summaries. In this tutorial, we learnt about Formatting the text of the emails Attaching files to emails Sharing files via Google Drive Inserting a photo or link into an email and about the Compose window options.
Slide 8: About Spoken Tutorial project	The video at the given link summarizes the Spoken Tutorial project. Please download and watch it .
Slide 9: Spoken Tutorial workshops	We conduct workshops and give certificates for those who pass our online tests. For more details, please write to us.
Slide 10: Acknowledgment	Spoken Tutorial project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India. More information on this mission is available at this link.
	This tutorial has been contributed by the Spoken Tutorial Team, IIT Bombay. This is Srilakshmi Ramaswamy signing off. Thanks for watching.

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