Forwarding Phones
Forward your School Phone to your Cell Phone
If you have your phone set to send all unidentified calls to your voice mail (or to block all unidentified calls), you will have to deselect that to make this work.
When you want to UN-DO this, and have your calls forwarded to voice mail again, you will go through the steps again, but you will forward calls to 7000, then press Activate.
- Leave the handset in its cradle.
- Press the menu button (blue key)
- Press Call Forwarding
- Enter the number to which you wish to forward your calls. (9+1+406-XXX-XXXX)
- Press Activate
If you have your phone set to send all unidentified calls to your voice mail (or to block all unidentified calls), you will have to deselect that to make this work.
When you want to UN-DO this, and have your calls forwarded to voice mail again, you will go through the steps again, but you will forward calls to 7000, then press Activate.
Google Voice
If you would prefer not to use your personal cell phone number for making work calls, Google Voice is a solution.
Anyone can create a google voice phone number for free.
From the browser then, you can place calls on your computer (you can try it out by calling your classroom phone or someone you know). You can go into settings and decide how you want to set things up… do you want your cell phone to ring when someone calls the number? Or go straight to VM? If you are sending calls to GoogleVoice voice mail, set up a greeting.
From here, you can give out your google voice number rather than your cell number. VM messages will end up in your gmail email box.
If you wish to make calls from your phone (instead of from your computer), you must download the google voice app for your phone and call people from within that app. Your Google Voice phone number will show up on other people's caller ID.
Anyone can create a google voice phone number for free.
- Login to a personal gmail account (make one for free if one doesn’t exist) - your school account won't work for this.
- Search google voice.
- Type in whatever area code you want.
- Choose a number
- Type in your own cell number (it has to be linked, but it will not be identifiable).
From the browser then, you can place calls on your computer (you can try it out by calling your classroom phone or someone you know). You can go into settings and decide how you want to set things up… do you want your cell phone to ring when someone calls the number? Or go straight to VM? If you are sending calls to GoogleVoice voice mail, set up a greeting.
From here, you can give out your google voice number rather than your cell number. VM messages will end up in your gmail email box.
If you wish to make calls from your phone (instead of from your computer), you must download the google voice app for your phone and call people from within that app. Your Google Voice phone number will show up on other people's caller ID.