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There are several ways to email all students in a course

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 Quickmail block on the right column of your a course. Click on "Compose Email" 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   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 Quickmail is not available to students.  If you would like students in your course or organization to be able to use QuickMailQuickmail, send a request to help@swarthmoresupport@swarthmore.edu and the settings will be adjusted.  

Announcements

You can use the "Announcements item in Moodle " forum to create announcements messages that are displayed in Moodle as well as sent to the students in the course.  Every course is created with a Announcements item in the top block.  Adding a new topic will create a post in the Announcements, add an entry to the "Latest News" block in Moodle, and email your students.  

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 Announcements area provides more places for 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.