<p>I teach freshmen, and I think that learning when and what is appropriate to email about, and how, is important. So I"ll have a discusison about how if you ask something that’s on the syllabus and/or on Canvas, you’ll get a boilerplate “check-the-syllabus/Canvas” answer. But I do want to be open to communication. And most of my teaching time in the past was as an adjunct with little or no office availability. But now even with that available, and being on campus more as a full-timer, I know my students are often commuters and may have complicated schedules, so I do want to be available for important questions. I can see this might work for some profs, but I like to keep the lines of communication open, and as I said above, I think that’s part of teaching new freshmen.</p>