Moodle at Wesleyan

Send email to all or some of your students

Notes

Teachers can email all or some of the students in their Moodle courses in two basic ways. One is to use the Announcements forum that every course includes by default. The Announcements forum works much like a regular forum except that the teacher is the only person able to post, and all members of the course are automatically subscribed to receive email notifications. There is no way, using the Announcements forum, to email only a subset of the members of the course. For more flexibility, you can use Quickmail, a feature also included automatically with every course:

Downloads:
https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/departments/ITS/Academic%20Computing/Moodle/moodle2-public-video/email-class.mp4
https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/departments/ITS/Academic%20Computing/Moodle/moodle2-public-video/email-class.webm
https://wesfiles.wesleyan.edu/departments/ITS/Academic%20Computing/Moodle/moodle2-public-video/email-class.ogv

To post an Announcement

1. On a course page click on the link to the Announcements forum
2. Click on the button to Add a new topic
3. Provide a subject in the Subject field
4. Add the content of your communication to the Message field
5. When you are satisfied with the message, click Post to forum
6. Note that forum posts are sent within about five minutes of posting, but they do not go out immediately, even if you tick the Mail now checkbox

To send a Quickmail

1. On the main course page, click Compose New Email in the Quickmail box, generally in the upper right.
2. On the next screen you can select the recipients of the message
   1. Choose Add All or Remove All
   2. Or select individuals in the one of the columns and use the Add and Remove buttons to move them across
3. When you have selected your recipients you can proceed to the Subject and Message fields
4. If you wish to receive your own copy of the email switch the Receive a copy option to Yes
5. You can save a draft, or if you are finished, just click Send Email