So you’d like to email your instructor or TAs? Take a couple minutes to consider the following:
- Is your question about course administration? If so, have you read the syllabus? If your questions is easily answered in the syllabus, we will either refer you to the syllabus, or ignore your email.
- Is your question about a homework exercise? First and foremost: You should ask it in class or office hours. If you simply must ask a homework question by email make sure you have read the relevant notes and examples, attempted similar practice problems, and looked at the practice problem solutions. These may be referenced in our answer, so we will assume you are familiar with these.
So you’re going to do it. You’re going to send an email. You must follow the following three rules. If you do not, your email will be considered less import than other emails which follow the rules and response time will be slower.
- All email must originate from an @illinois.edu email address or appear as sent on behalf or an @illinois.edu address.
- Depending on the situation, failure to follow this rule may make a response impossible.
- Your subject line must begin with exactly the following: [STAT 400]
- Failure to follow this step exactly may result in your email simply not being answered.
- After the above, put a single space, followed by a useful but short description of your message.
If your email is sent between 9:00 AM Monday and 11:59 PM Thursday, and you follow the above directions, we will try our best to respond within 24 hours. Homework questions sent the same day a homework is due will likely not receive a response before the homework is due. Plan accordingly.