In general, the Forum should be your primary means of asking questions in this course. Although you have been provided in the course syllabus with an email address to contact the instructor, email should generally be used only for questions that can't, by their nature, be asked in the Forum (the website is down, your password doesn't work, the website won't accept your registration, etc.) or for which you can't find an appropriate document related to the question (e.g., notifying the instructor that you will be unable to attend a midterm exam).

If you send e-mail to the instructor that should, in the instructor's opinion, have been posted to the Forum, the instructor may copy your e-mail into the Forum and reply there. Conversely, if you post something in the Forum that the instructor feels is inappropriate, the instructor may remove your post and reply, if necessary, via email.

Finally, note that the Forum is an official part of this course. Students posting in the Forum are expected to conform to the norms for civility and respect for ones' classmates and instructors that are common to all on-campus speech and writing.