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RAMS: Rutgers Automated Mass-mailing System

The easiest way to contact your entire class by email is to create a mailing list—a single email address you can use to contact your course roster.

Prerequisites

  1. You must have "roster access" to your courses (if you have roster access, you can see your roster from Class Rosters; if you don't, ask your departmental secretary or chair for assistance)
  2. Your students must either check their Rutgers email or set up forwarding to another account they do check

Step by Step

  1. Point your browser to https://rams.rutgers.edu
  2. Click "Class List Creator" on the left-hand menu
  3. Login to the RAMS website with your NetID and password
  4. Pick the year and term for which you want to create the course mailing
  5. Click on select sections, then click "select section"
  6. Check the sections that should be included in your list
  7. Click "Pick list name" and type a name for your new email list. Note: the list name must include a hyphen or underscore character. One model would be "Eng101-smith-f05"
  8. Fill in the short description, e.g., "English 101 with Prof. Smith, fall 2005" and click "Set Options"
  9. In general, use the "private" and "CLOSED" options, then click "Set More Options"
  10. Fill in your NetID and email address; click "Finish Setup"
  11. Print the page that lists your new listname
  12. IMPORTANT: to send email to your new list, you will create a new, blank email message. In the "To:" field, enter Course-List-Name@RAMS.rutgers.edu, where Course-List-Name is the name you have chosen for that specific course, e.g.:
    TO: eng101-smith-f05@rams.rutgers.edu
  13. This list will automatically add/remove students' email addresses as they add/drop your course.