Gmail
Training and Help
All Tearfund staff have a Gmail account, most are firstname.surname@tearfund.org. With Gmail, your email is stored safely in the cloud. This means you can get to them from any computer or device with a web browser. You can also quickly organise and find important email, as well as read and draft email without an internet connection.
Find out how to use Gmail, how to set up 2 factor authentication, how to access Gmail offline and more in this page.
Quick links - Create a calendar event in Gmail | Group emails into conversations | Create labels & organise | Create rules to filter emails | Search & find emails | Respond & resolve comments from mail | Add shortcut directly from email | How to enable chat in Gmail | Organise email using labels & filter | Right Click menu in Gmail | How to enable and access Gmail offline
Gmail basics training(external free resource, needs registration)
How to access your emails offline !!
Step1 - Read & respond to email offline (Chrome only)
Read, respond, search & organise Gmail messages when you aren’t connected to the internet. Your messages will be sent from outbox when you're back online.
Click Gmail Settings -> Offline tab, check the Enable offline mail box.
(Optional) To choose how many days of email you want to store offline, next to Sync settings, select no of days. You can also choose whether to download attachments.
Choose whether to keep or remove offline data on your device.
At the bottom, click Save Changes.
Step2 (optional) - Bookmark your inbox to access email offline
In the Chrome browser, open your Gmail inbox.
To the right of the address bar, click 'Star', It should turn blue in color. Learn more about how to create a bookmark in Chrome.
Gmail offline - Quick video
Access Gmail Offline.mp4Step3 - Access and use Gmail offline
To open Gmail without Internet, go to your mail, or click the bookmark you created for Gmail offline in Chrome browser.
Note: When you send emails offline, your email goes into a new "Outbox" folder & gets sent as soon as you go back online.
Gmail - Self learning video guides
Gmail Tips and Help guides
Click the drop down arrows to view the tips for each level
Gmail - Beginners Tips
Gmail - Advanced Tips
What can you do with Gmail
Your suggestions to improve this site are most welcome. Please write to IT.Trainers@tearfund.org or Marc.lawler@tearfund.org. We will be happy to make changes based on your suggestions.