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Moodle gives you the ability to send an email message to all the students who are enrolled on your module. The email message will be sent to the email address in the student's profile which has been fixed to the student's University of Nottingham student email address.

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How the student receives the email depends on their settings. They may receive each individual announcement email separately, or, it if this is set in their profile (and it is default for students), all announcements and forum alerts are bundled up in one email Digest per day.  Remind students to check all emails with the subject heading “moodle.Nottingham Forum Digest”. These emails arrive at the end of the day (around 5 pm) so students may not receive an email until up to 24 hours after you post it.

Alternative: Use the

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Participants list 

The best way to send a message to students is to email them via the Announcements. Alternatively you can get a list of all stduent email addresses and send them a normal email with these addresses in the BCC box.

  1. To open the Participants List, open the 'Hamburger menu' (nav drawer) and select Participants

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2. To send a message to all students via normal email scroll down to the bottom of the list and select Select all ?? users

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NOTE: If you have a large cohort of students this page may take a while to load.

3. From "With selected users" select Microsoft Excel (.xlsx)

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4. Open the downloaded Excel spreadsheet and select everything in the "email" column (except the header) and Copy

5. Open an email in Outlook, ensure the bcc field is visible and then Paste into the field. This will send the email to all participants. Complete your email as normal.

Second alternative (the Messaging system) - 

If you can't use either of the above methods However, you can also send a message to individual students or a group or small proportion of students on a module (say up to 15 or so students).

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