On rare occasions, emails you receive from students may be flagged as spam. This article will show you how to set up a filter to prevent this from happening. It also includes instructions on how to set up a label (similar to, but better than a folder) to organize all of the student email messages you receive and keep your inbox tidy.

1. Go to mail.google.com to access your email. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner to open settings.

2. Select Filters and Blocked Addresses.

3. Select Create a new filter. In the "From" field, enter @ttsdstudents.org.

4. Select "Create filter"

5. Check the "Never send it to Spam" checkbox, pictured in step 6 below. If you want to keep student emails in your inbox, click "Create filter" and you are done. To organize your student emails, don't click create filter yet...

6. Optional: If you would like to automatically move student emails out of your inbox and place them under a label, check the "skip the inbox..." and the the "apply the label:" checkboxes. You will see a pulldown menu after the latter. The pulldown menu will list any current labels you have set up and give you the option to make a new label. I created one called "From Students"

Note: The "never send to spam" checkbox only applies to messages
received from this point forward. It won't retroactively un-flag
messages already received.
 

7. Optional: To move any previously received student emails out of your inbox and put them under your new label, check the box below.

Your number of matching conversations will likely be higher....
 

8. Click the "create filter" button pictured in step 5 above. All of your student conversations will appear under the new label you created/selected. Labels are on the left side of your main mail screen.

The 1 indicates one unread message.