This course is for the new user of GroupWise 7.0 and assumes no experience with Lotus Notes or any other email application. The topics covered are the critical skills you need to create, send and respond to email in GroupWise, maintain a list of contacts and schedule appointments and meetings.
Course Objectives
You will use GroupWise to send and receive email messages, schedule appointments and meetings, maintain a list of contacts and keep track of tasks.
Prerequisites
To ensure students' success with this course, we recommend that they first take the Element K courses: Introduction to Personal Computers Using Windows XP and Introduction to Personal Computers Using Windows 2000; or have equivalent knowledge.
Target Student
The target student for this course is anyone who needs to learn how to use GroupWise 7.0 for email, notes, tasks and/or appointments.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- explore the GroupWise 7.0 environment, the fundamental
features of GroupWise, and its help system.
- work with email and phone messages.
- manage email and phone messages efficiently so that your
system performance is enhanced.
- work with address books, and manage your contacts using
personal address books and mail groups.
- use the Calendar to schedule appointments and create reminders
in order to suitably allot your time to various tasks.
- work with resources and Multi-User views.
Delivery Method
Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured, hands-on activities.
Course duration
1 Day(s)
Course outline
Lesson 1: Getting Started with GroupWise
- Topic 1A: Work with the GroupWise Interface
- Topic 1B: Explore the GroupWise Help System
Lesson 2: Working with Messages
- Topic 2A: Read Messages
- Topic 2B: Send Messages
- Topic 2C: Work with Advanced Message Options
- Topic 2D: Set Email Properties
- Topic 2E: Work with Attachments
- Topic 2F: Work with Sent Items
- Topic 2G: Reply to and Forward a Message
Lesson 3: Managing Messages
- Topic 3A: Create a Checklist
- Topic 3B: Filter Messages
- Topic 3C: Create Color-Coded Categories
- Topic 3D: Delete Messages
- Topic 3E: Work with Folders
- Topic 3F: Configure Junk Mail Handling
- Topic 3G: Archive Messages
Lesson 4: Working with Address Books
- Topic 4A: Send Messages Using the Address Book
- Topic 4B: Create a Mail Group
- Topic 4C: Work with Contacts
Lesson 5: Using the Calendar
- Topic 5A: Work with the Calendar
- Topic 5B: Schedule Posted Appointments
- Topic 5C: Schedule Appointments for Others
- Topic 5D: Work with Reminder Notes
Lesson 6: Using Resources and Multi-User Views
- Topic 6A: Schedule a Resource
- Topic 6B: Use Multi-User View
- Topic 6C: Work with Rules
Platform Requirements
- Windows XP, 2000, NT, or 98.
Hardware Requirements
You will need:
- Pentium 200 MHz or higher processor (multiprocessor is optional).
- A hard disk drive of at least 2 GB.
- 500 MB of available disk space for the GroupWise software
and 10 MB of available disk space per user is recommended.
- TCP/IP networking.
- ConsoleOne 1.3.4 or higher.
- For the Windows Agent: 5.5 MB.
- You will need printers if you want to print the email messages
or calendar created in the course.
- For the client workstations: Pentium processor (recommended)
with 128 MB of RAM, a mouse, latest Novell client installed, 5 MB free disk
space to run the GroupWise client from the network, and 60 MB to install the
GroupWise client locally.
Software Requirements
- Novell NetWare 5 or 6 (with eDirectory 8.5 or higher) or Microsoft
Windows 2000/NT along with the respective OS RAM requirements.
- For the NetWare Agent: 65 MB disk space.
