Forgot your flash drive? (How to save your work or other items by e-mailing them to yourself!)

Have you ever found yourself working on one of the college's computers when you realize that you cannot save your work because you left your flash drive at home?

There is an easy way around this!

You can save your work (temporarily) to the computer that you're working on, and then e-mail it to yourself!

Just follow these steps:

1. Save the file to the computer.  This can be to the desktop or the documents folder.  The important thing is to remember where you saved it!
2. Log in to your e-mail.  This can be your HAWKMail or any other e-mail account that you regularly use.
3. Start a new message, and enter your own e-mail address in the to: field.
4. Use the attachment option and attach the file that you saved to the e-mail.
5. Send the e-mail.
6. Wait to make sure that the e-mail shows up in your mailbox, and that the document is successfully attached.
7. Go to the place that you saved the e-mail, and delete it from the public computer.

Feel free to check with a library staff member if you would like some additional help in doing this for the first time!

Forward HAWKMail messages to your own personal e-mail account!

Did you know that  you MUST check your HAWKMail regularly, but to make this easier, you can have those messages forwarded to your regular e-mail account?

Just working in the library, I hear from several students who admit that they never check their HAWKMail.  These conversations usually occur after after something serious comes up (such as realizing that they cannot see their grades or register for classes) all because they missed something important since they did not check their HAWKMail.

Many of these same students DO have some other type of e-mail account (through their Internet provider, Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail and more).  If you check this e-mail regularly, then all you need to do is forward your HAWKMail messages to this account, and you will finally be getting your messages from HACC, your instructors, other students, etc!

How to forward your HAWKMail:

1. On the HACC web page, look to the top right corner and click HAWKMail
2. On the HAWKMail page, look for  the red HAWKMail box.  This will show a link to a document called "How to forward HAWKMail (pdf)".  Just open this (print if needed), and follow the directions to forward your HAWKMail to an e-mail account of your choice!

If you do not have a private e-mail account then please remember that you must remember to check your HAWKMail regularly.  Important announcements and messages are sent through this account, and students are expected to check this regularly!