In general? Is a week enough?

Originally Posted by Zebedee

In general? Is a week enough?

48 hours

.....

Lol...I know some profs get like a hundred emails a day or more. I'd say give them like at least a week. Only some of them are extremely particular on emails. I've gotten responses back like 2-3 weeks afterwards I think.

there are some profs who checks their email everyday so sometimes you might get a reply from your prof 24 hours after you send the email. I think it really depends on prof really...

I'm not sure there's an answer 'in general'. Some instructors are glued to their emails, others not. If an instructor is usually pretty good about replying quickly, but isn't for some reason, you might want to see what's going on. If you know your instructor isn't good with emails, go and find them and talk to them in person; instant response.

I also don't quite get what you mean by how long should you give them - before what?

Never assume that because an prof hasn't replied that means you are exempt from following any rules or guides that were posted for the course. That's an easy way to get into hot water. If you need to urgently find out something, use your feet and find somebody to answer it: a peer, a TA, etc.

Andrew Colgoni
Science Fluencies Librarian

I meant before re-sending the email. It's taken me a couple tries before to get a response; I just wondered if there was a certain protocol to follow.

Get a friend to email them about a generic question, IE "My mark is 2 points lower than it should be, who should i talk to about this?". If they get a response quickly, then perhaps your prof didn't get your email. If they didn't answer them either, then maybe your prof doesn't check his/her email very often.

Its very important that you put the course code and other relevant info in the subject line...
i.e. coursecode studentnumber Title

Lots of profs have filters, so your message might have just got put in the junk. Even if you sent it correctly (using guidelines they might have outlined on their site) if they havn't checked their email in a while, they wont check old mail from students...