Learning outcomes
- Explain how to choose an appropriate delivery time.
- Complete the guided activity safely.
- Check that you can send at a deliberate time.
Compose and Send
Schedule Send
Learn to choose an appropriate delivery time and send at a deliberate time in this beginner-friendly Gmail lesson.
Before you begin
Use the correct account. Practise with fictional content and never share passwords, recovery codes or confidential information.
Step-by-step instructions
- Open Gmail and confirm that the profile picture and email address show the intended Google Account.
- Schedule a fictional update and review it using fictional or non-sensitive practice information.
- Pause before any send, delete, sharing, security or account change; check recipients, permissions and likely consequences.
- Review the result and confirm that you can send at a deliberate time.
- Record one useful habit and safely reverse or remove any temporary practice item.
Ian's practical tip: Email can affect real people immediately. Check the account, recipients, subject, attachments, tone and privacy before you send or share.
Practical activity
Schedule a fictional update and review it. Your expected result is to send at a deliberate time.