(Archived) Evernote without Email Addresses

[CathyO 0]

Is there a way for a teacher to introduce and use Evernote with students without utilizing email addresses? Our current school procedures permits high school students to be issued email addresses, but not students in lower grades (K-8).

[gazumped 11,667]

Hi - welcome to the forums.

It's not possible to share securely without an email address from which to receive the invitation. You could create a public link to some material, but you'd have to be aware that anyone with access to that link inside or outside the school can see the content.

If students are going to have their own Evernote accounts, they will need an email address of their own.. you might be able to solve the problem by promoting the use of Evernote. (With their own account, students would be able to share work notebooks back to you so you can monitor work online.)

You could certainly publish your own public notebook with generic information about courses and events in the same way that the details would go onto a website. The difference would be that this content is under your control, rather than a separate site manager.

[GrumpyMonkey 4,319]

Is there a way for a teacher to introduce and use Evernote with students without utilizing email addresses? Our current school procedures permits high school students to be issued email addresses, but not students in lower grades (K-8).

Hi. Welcome to the forums! Ah, don't you just love it when people come up with rules like these? They sound good in groupthink, but when released out into the world, they wreak havoc. Your STUDENTS don't need email addresses. The OWNER of the account does. So, if you made 20 gmail addresses, and 20 email accounts associated with those email addresses, then you could just give the students the Evernote accounts. They would have 0 access to the gmail addresses, and technically speaking, you would be in compliance with the byzantine restrictions under which you are laboring

However, if your students are smart (and they often are), they will quickly figure out that every Evernote account comes with an email address. Yes, by giving them Evernote accounts, that email address is bundled with it (for various important and wonderful reasons). It isn't fully functioning, but enough to be able to send and receive emails (in the form of notes). My advice would be to show administrators what Evernote can do and ask for them to reconsider their absurd (in my opinion) rule.