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There are several ways to email all students in a course
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Quickmail
You can e-mail the email an entire class or selected students using the "QuickMail" Quickmail feature. Navigate to your course and look Look for the QuickMail section near the top right of the screen. Click on "Compose Email" Quickmail block on the right column of a course. Click Compose Course Message and select the recipients. There is a button to "Add All" or you can select individual people to e-mail. Compose your e-mail and click on the "Send E-Mail" button at the bottom of the screen. QuickMail keeps a history of all e-mails you have sent which is available right under the "Compose Email" link on the course page.
News Forum
You can use the News Forum in Moodle to create announcements Select All in course or choose specific individuals, roles, or groups to email. Compose your email and click Send Message at the bottom of the screen.
Advanced Use
You can send email separately to course groups if you use groups in your course
It is possible to add additional non-course users with the Additional Emails field
Emails can be scheduled using the "Send at" option near the bottom of the page
The user data fields allow message personalization. For example, entering "Dear [:firstname:]" will insert each recipient's first name into the message
By default, only students cannot use Quickmail, but there is a setting to permit students to send emails.
Other Quickmail Information
Quickmail keeps a history of all sent messages which is available under the "View Sent Messages" link on the Quickmail block on the course page.
By default, Quickmail is not available to students. If you would like students in your course or organization to be able to use Quickmail, send a request to support@swarthmore.edu and the settings will be adjusted.
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If this Quickmail block is missing from your course, see the "Adding Blocks" section of the Blocks page to add the Quickmail block to your course. |
Announcements
You can use the "Announcements" forum to create messages that are displayed in Moodle as well as sent to the students in the course. Every course is created with a News Forum Announcements item in the top block. Adding a new topic will create a post in the News ForumAnnouncements, add an entry to the "Latest News" block in Moodle, and email your students.
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Remember that any posts Announcements you make to the news forum will get emailed to your students (even test posts!). |
Faculty Services
Faculty Services provides a listing of all the emails for the students registered for your course. You can copy and paste the listing from Faculty Services to your email program. Some people create contact lists for their courses using this feature.
When to use which feature?
For a general announcement, any of the above methods are fine. The News Forum Announcements area provides more places for an announcement a notice to show up, which is good for important events such as due dates for papers and not as good for reminders about who is bringing a snack for tomorrow's class.