Making sure you get all your emails

How do you make sure you are receiving all the emails sent by staff on your modules through Moodle?

Emails are sent through Moodle in a variety of ways.

Announcements

Many lecturers send our messages to all students on a module via the Announcements Forum.

This will be delivered to your University inbox.  It may be as part of a once-a-day digest with the subject "moodle.Nottingham Forum Digest "  OR each message may be delivered separately: in this case the message will have the shortname of the module in its title.

You can also see these messsages in the Announcements forum in your module, and in the Latest News block (usually top right of the module page).

It is important that you:

• Ensure you read any emails with the title moodle.Nottingham Forum Digest as this contains important messages from several modules.
• Ensure you look at your UNIVERSITY email address. Emails are sent only to the email address on your profile - normally the University one.

 See also  How to Change the number of emails Moodle sends you

Moodle messaging

Moodle has an internal messaging system and people may send you emails through it.

• If you are online, by default, these emails pop up (but may NOT also come as an email)
• If you are offline, then the message comes through as an email.

If you have changed these defaults then something else may happen.

In My Home click into Messages to see your messages. 

The popup looks something like this, right at the bottom of your screen:

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To ensure you get the messages by email

You can change your settings to enable these to also come into your email inbox.

1. Go to My Home
2. Under My profile settings click on Messaging
3. On the page "Configure notification methods for incoming messages"
   scroll down to
   "Personal messages between users"
4. Check all four boxes are checked (for 'When I'm logged in' and 'When I'm offline')

You will now receive emails that look like this (It may be difficult to tell which module they relate to as it comes directly from the member of staff). The subject line will be "New message from [Person's Name]"

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Tutorial Bookings / Seminar signups

You may also be contacted by email directly from the tutor or staff member about a group you have signed up for. These emails come directly into your inbox individually.