Black Bear Academy email signature

For Black Bear Academy staff with a blackbearacademy.com email. Fill in your details, check the preview, click Copy signature, then paste it into Gmail on a computer.

Black Bear Elementary staff: use the Black Bear Elementary signature instead (ask Emily Mason-Pehr). CCNC staff: keep your current signature for now. A CCNC version is coming.

This signature is for a shared inbox (for example info@ or careers@), not one person

Name and credentials Example: Maggie Kindra, OTR/L Title Example: Director of Clinical Operations Title, second line Optional. Use it if your title is long or has two parts. Email address Your blackbearacademy.com address

Preview

Add it in Gmail (on a computer, about 3 minutes)

In Gmail, click the gear icon, then See all settings.
On the General tab, scroll to Signature. Select your "BBA" signature, or click Create new and name it "BBA".
Click inside the signature box, select everything in it (Ctrl+A on Windows, Command+A on Mac), and delete it. This removes your old signature so it does not show twice.
Paste with Ctrl+V (Windows) or Command+V (Mac). Do not use Ctrl+Shift+V or "Paste as plain text": that removes the badge and layout.
Under Signature defaults, set FOR NEW EMAILS USE and ON REPLY/FORWARD USE to "BBA". If you see more than one address in the EMAIL ADDRESS list (for example a shared inbox you send from), set both boxes for each address you use.
Check the box Insert signature before quoted text in replies and remove the "--" line that precedes it. This puts your signature right under your reply instead of at the very bottom of the thread.
Scroll to the bottom and click Save Changes.
Test it: send a new email and a reply to a personal address outside Black Bear Academy. Check that the round badge shows on the left in both.

Phones and tablets

Gmail app (iPhone, iPad or Android): leave Mobile signature turned off. Google says the app then uses the signature you set on your computer. To check: in the app, tap the menu, then Settings, your account (on iPhone and iPad: Signature settings), and make sure Mobile signature is off or empty.
Test a reply from your phone: reply to an email from the Gmail app and send it to a personal address. If the badge shows, you are done. If no signature shows on the reply, turn Mobile signature on and paste the plain-text version (click Copy plain-text version above, then send it to yourself to copy on your phone).
iPhone or iPad Mail app: Settings, Apps, Mail, Signature (under Composing). Delete "Sent from my iPhone" and paste the plain-text version.
Outlook app (iPhone, iPad or Android): in Outlook, open Settings, then under Mail tap Signature, and paste the plain-text version.
Phone signatures are text only. That is normal. The badge shows on emails sent from Gmail on a computer.

If something looks wrong

Signature shows twice: delete everything in the Gmail signature box, paste again, and save.
No badge, or everything is plain text: you pasted as plain text, or Gmail is in plain text mode. Paste again with Ctrl+V or Command+V. In a new email, click the three dots at the bottom and make sure Plain text mode is not checked.
Badge shows a small box or the words "Black Bear Academy": the person you emailed has images turned off. That is their setting. Your signature is fine.
No signature on replies: check step 5. ON REPLY/FORWARD USE must be "BBA".
The Copy button does nothing: select the preview from the badge to the end of the confidentiality line, copy it, and paste it into Gmail.

Questions: ask Maggie Kindra or email Blair Koorsen at bek@veriqostudio.com.