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This refers to Moodle 3.6 8 from July 2019 September 2020 onward
How to send the students on your module an email
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The best way to send a message to all your students (all students in a module) is to create an Announcement - EITHER by:
- clicking on the
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The 'Latest Announcements' block is available in every module: If it is not visible, to make it visible:
- Click on the 'Turn editing on
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- ' button in the top right of your Moodle page
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- Scroll down to and select Add A Block
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4. Select Latest Announcements from the drop-down menu
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5. When finished, click on the 'Turn editing off' button in the top right of your Moodle page
A post in Announcements
- It puts a post in the Announcements (forum) which will remain for ever unless deleted (always there for students to refer to)
- It adds a notification in the 'Latest announcements' block (this will show only the most recent posts)
- It will go out by email to all participants (including staff enrolled on the module) and they cannot unsubscribe
To send a message to all participants
NOTE: To send a message it is necessary that the Image RemovedAnnouncements forum is visible to students
- Go into your module
- Click on "Announcements" (or Announcements and then the 'Add a new topic' button
OR go to the 'Latest Announcements' block )Click and click on the Add a new topic button (or hyperlink if in the Latest Announcements block) link - Type a "Subject" and type your your "Message"
- Add an attachment if you wish by click on the Advanced link
- Click on the 'Post to forum' button when done
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The message:
- Appears as a post in the forum
- Is featured in the Latest 'Latest Announcements' block on the right
- Is sent as an email to all students and other participants
You can choose to "Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay" or - if left unticked, Moodle will give you 30 minutes in which you can edit the text (useful for bad typists!).
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You can use the Participants list to send a Moodle message via the Messages system (a sort of internal text message).
- To open the Participants List
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- , open the 'Hamburger menu' (nav drawer) and select Participants
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2. To send a message
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, select the tickbox next to one or more students and at the bottom of the page choose from the dropdown
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menu 'Send a message'.
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This is more like a TEXT MESSAGE.text message
This process sends a message to each student. They receive it (by default) in one of the following ways:1.
- If they are ONLINE it pops up as a message and goes into their Messages folder.
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- If they are OFFLINE then it goes into their messages folder and is sent as an email.
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- It is possible for individuals to change their preferences on how to receive messages so these defaults (1 and 2 above) may have changed. Some individuals may opt not to see any messages at all so you can’t be sure your message got to them!
Note: There is NO subject or module context on the message – is it sent from one person (e.g., a module convenor) to another (student) so you should include the name of the module in the message to give it a context.
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To send a message to certain participants:
- Navigate to the module (that the students are enrolled on) that you want to email. Under the 'Hamburger menu' (Navigation area) select
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- Participants.
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- A new screen will load listing the first 20 students on this module.
If you want to email all of the students on this module then you will need to bring up all of the students on the one screen .
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- You can do this by clicking the hyperlink at the bottom saying Show all xxx – in this case xxx =
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- 54 or clicking the 'Select all XXX users' button
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3. Once you have
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selected your users, click the dropdown and select 'Send a message'
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Composing the email
A new screen will load into which you can compose your email (shown below).
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When you are
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ready to send, click on the 'Send message to XXX people' button
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Please note that the email will appear to come from your University of Nottingham email address. Therefore if a student replies to your email then it will go directly into your University email account.
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