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The following article details the steps for instructors to send emails within Brightspace.
Please note that the course layout, steps, and screenshots shown below may differ slightly for your campus.
This article details the primary methods that instructors can use to email students within their course. The methods provided include emailing the entire course, emailing only select users within their course, as well as creating and sending emails outside of a course.
Note: Please note that Classlist and Roster are often used interchangeably, and you may see both terms used within your courses.
Emailing all students through the Classlist/Roster
- Access the Classlist (also sometimes called the Roster) within your course. This can always be done by accessing the Course Admin area and selecting "Classlist", but you may have a link directly within the Navbar of your course.
- After accessing the Classlist, find and click on Email Classlist.
- Scroll to the bottom of the list of students, and click on Send Email.
- This will cause a pop-up window to appear. Within this window, fill out the Subject and Body of your Email, and then click Send when finished.
Note: The list of students will appear in the BCC field when emailing this way. This ensures that any replies to this email do not go to the entire class, but only back to the instructor.
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Emailing specific students through the Classlist/Roster
- Access the Classlist (also sometimes called the Roster) within your course. This can always be done by accessing the Course Admin area and selecting "Classlist", but you may have a link directly within the Navbar of your course.
- Find the student(s) that you wish to email within the Classlist, and check the boxes next to their name(s). Then, click the Email button.
- This will cause a pop-up window to appear. Within this window, fill out the Subject and Body of your Email, and then click Send when finished.
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Send an email through the Email tool
- Click on the Message Alerts (Envelope) button, and then click Email. Note that this can be done both from the Brightspace home page, and when in a course. If you access the Email tool while inside of a course, please note that your email will be automatically filtered to display emails for that course specifically.
- Click Compose to start a new email.
- Click on "To" to pull up the Address Book and select users to email.
- You can use the "Filter By" dropdown menu to filter what users you are seeing by course, and use the "Search For..." search bar to search for specific users in a course. Once you have found the user(s) you wish to email, check the box next to their name, and then click Add Recipients.
- The user(s) that were selected are now showing in the "To" field. Note that you can also click on "Add CC or BCC" and repeat the process if you wish to CC or BCC additional users. Now, fill out the subject and body of the email, and then click Send.
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