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Show me how to email my instructor or other students.
 

Students can access email functions for specific courses and organizations through the Send Email page. From this page users can send email to fellow classmates, instructors, teaching assistants or groups within a course. Send email allows users direct access to course participants and Web email, from the Tools box on the My Institution area, allows users to send email via the Web.

 

Send email page

Click Send Email from the Communication area. From this page select the users who will receive the email message. The Send Email page will appear as shown below.

 

Available functions

The following functions are available from the Send email page.

  • All Users: Sends email to all users in a specified course or organization.

  • All Groups: Sends email to all of the groups in a specified course or organization.

  • All Teaching Assistants: Sends email to all of the teaching assistants in a specified course.

  • All Instructors: Sends email to all of the instructors for a specified course.

  • Select Users: Sends email to a single user or select users in a specified course.

  • Select Groups: Send email to a single group or select groups in a course.

 

Send Email – All Users

Click All Users and the Send email page will appear as shown below.

Note: To minimize the distraction of long lists of To: addresses, and to make the re-use of the address lists more difficult for potential spammers all destination addresses are placed into the mail message’s Bcc: (Blind Carbon Copy) field upon receipt.

 

Entry fields

The table below details the entry fields on the Send Email page.

 

Select Students

To:

All users enrolled in the course will appear.

From:

The user’s email address will automatically be displayed in this field.

Subject:

Enter the subject of the email.

Message:

Enter the email message.

Select Message Options

Copy of message to self:

Click the check box to send a copy of the message to the sender.

Add Attachments

Add:

Click here to add attachments.