Email: Tips for Organizing Your Incoming Mail in Outlook

When a message is sent from eLearn to an instructor or student, the subject line will be auto-populated to begin with the name and section of your course. It will end with this symbol >.  You can take advantage of this similar subject line to create a rule that will move all your messages from a specific course into a folder in your inbox. Using the example image below, you would make a folder for your CHEM 1030 C01 section. You may also want to add a semester identifier to the folder name as you may have the same course and section number again in upcoming semesters.

subject line - CHEM 1030 C01 Fundamentals of Chemistry > Help with Chapter 5 Question

Set up rules

The steps to set up rules are specific to the version of Outlook that you are using. See this Microsoft Support article for step-by-step instructions.

Link to Microsoft Support page: Manage email messages by using rules in Outlook