Hi, I’ve experimented with email in various educational situations and it never works in my experience and is certainly never ‘straight forward’. Its fine for an essay but as soon as images are involved – boy does it go wrong!

Image sizing is probably the weakest aspect of most digital camera users practice and we found that, even after clear guidance, too many students submitted 30mb+ files (print resolution PSDs for instance were a favourite) for each image.

My email allows 10mb per email so the average student might have to send me anything up to 30 emails for me to get their submission. If we could guarantee every student knew how to size and save an image in an appropriate format it could work, but experience tells me that is not going to happen any time soon! And of course we couldn’t logistically have one system for those that could and one for those that couldn’t. The pen drive got round that problem.

Hope that answers your query,

Garry