REF:66-2101-7441529- Receiving irrelevant e-mails

Your comment: I am a distance learning student studying a Masters degree whilst working full time. The amount of e-mails I receive in my uni webmail account that are not relevant to me is huge. Out of 600+ emails, less than 25 were relevant since August 2019. This makes it incredibly difficult to identify which e-mails I should be answering. As a full time worker, to keep a track on all these e-mails is a part time job on its own. Is there any way you can tailor the e-mails for distance learners and stop the blanket e-mails that are sent to full time students?

Our response:

Information Services provides email lists for staff to use to contact students: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/is/it-services/emaillists/studentlists/ As you will see these are broken down as far as module level. However we have no control over how staff use these lists to contact students. Many communications are sent to all students, for example, the Coronavirus communications, as students studying the same course are in dfferent circumstances. Many distance learners live locally and visit campus regularly, collecting their library loans in person and using facilities on campus. Communications not relevant to you as a distance learner may be directly relevant to them.