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INTERNET AND COMMUNICATION · UNIT 03

Everyday email

Write and organise messages, choose who receives them and work carefully with attachments.

Build your confidence one skill at a time.

Work through the illustrated explanations, explore the examples and check your understanding with the questions. You can revisit any section whenever you need a reminder.

Lessons in this unit

Learn at your own pace
FREE · BEGINNER

Email and calendar apps

Understand messages, drafts, recipients and appointments, using familiar email and calendar examples.

7 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Spot scam emails

Practise noticing suspicious requests and checking messages through a route you already trust.

9 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Protect your passwords and accounts

Understand long, unique passwords, password managers and extra sign-in protection without entering any private information.

9 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Prepare an email to send

Build a message with the intended address, subject and body.

8 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Reply or forward to the right people

Choose who receives your response and notice what travels with a thread.

8 minutes
FREE · BUILDING CONFIDENCE

Understand To, CC and BCC

Choose visible or hidden recipient fields with care.

8 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Add the right file to an email

Attach a saved document or photo and check it before sending.

8 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Save a file received by email

Distinguish previewing an attachment from saving a copy you can find.

8 minutes
FREE · BEGINNER

Find and organise messages

Use search and organisation without confusing archive with delete.

8 minutes
FREE · BUILDING CONFIDENCE

Handle junk mail and mistaken filtering

Choose between reporting, blocking and correcting a misplaced message.

8 minutes