Session 2: Opening an email accountCreating an email account in Gmail

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An email is an electronic letter sent via the internet

Emails can be created via an online provider or with a program on your computer

You need an email address and a password to send emails

An email address is made up of a username, the @ sign and the domain name

Never to give out your password/s or personal details!

Welcome to session 2 of Email for Seniors. Last week you learnt:

Today you will learn how to open an email account with Gmail – an email service provided by Google. You will learn how to enter your personal

details into the Gmail system You will create your own email address and

password for your account using the skills you learnt last week

You will learn about privacy policies, terms of service and captcha

Today’s session

All about Gmail Gmail is an internet email service provided

by Google It is a free and safe service You can access it on many different devices

aside from your computer, such as your tablet or smartphone

You can sign into your account via the Google search engine

When you create your email account with Gmail you will be asked to enter:Your name Your birth dateYour genderYour chosen username and password

Creating your email account

Your age is required in order to provide you with age-appropriate settings

You can choose not to specify your gender. Simply select “other” if you wish.

Your name is required in order for you to identify yourself when sending emails.

Why are your personal details required?

Last week you practiced creating your own email address and password. Now you will use what you learned to create one that you will use.

When creating your password, remember to make it something personal that only you will remember, and consider making it a “strong” password by a combination of numbers.

Your username and password

Revision: an example of an email address

The terms of service and privacy policy are two documents that you are required to agree to in order to set up your email address.

You don’t have to read them, however the privacy

policy has some useful information about how Gmail will use your details and why they are needed.

Captcha is a security test that is used to ensure that you are a human, not a program that could degenerate the quality of the system. There is an audio option for people with vision impairment.

Terms of service, privacy policy and captcha

An example of a captcha:

The next slides will be a demonstration of the Gmail sign-up process. Please click to continue…

Step 1: Go to www.google.com.au

Step 2: Click on the Gmail tab

Step 3: Click on the Create Account link

Step 4: Enter your details in the appropriate fields and create your username and password

Step 5: Check the privacy agreement box. Leave the second box empty (you can change this later if you wish to)

Step 6: Enter what you see in the captcha box. This is what it will look like (note the megaphone symbol, this provides an audio version of the test for those who are vision impaired):

Step 7: Click on the Next Step button

Step 8: Continue to Gmail!

Now, using the step by step process outlined in this tutorial, it’s your turn to sign-up to Gmail.www.google.com.au <click here to get started(remember to keep your email address all in lower case)

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/gmail This is a tutorial that focusses on Gmail

https://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about.html About Gmail

http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/c/f/What-Is-a-CAPTCHA-Test.htm Some more information about captcha

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Gmail’s privacy policy

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