Quickmail

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How do I turn on Quickmail? Where is the Quickmail block? How do I send a message to my students with the Quickmail?

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The Quickmail block adds a link to a tool that has a check box list of all students in the course, and a mail composition text area. You can check the students you like, and email those and only those. This enhances the existing communications systems of messaging (one user) and subscribed forums (all subscribers) by allowing teachers to select a specific subset of students. Continue reading to learn how to install the Quickmail block and send your students a message.

News Forum

Q.

What does the News Forum do? How can I send a message to my students?

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The News forum is a special forum for general announcements. This forum is automatically created for each course and for the front page of the Moodle site. By default, it is placed in the top of the center section and only teachers and administrators may add posts or reply to posts. The default settings force every enrolled person to be subscribed to the News forum. As with any forum, emails can be sent to subscribed members of a News forum. Continue reading to learn how to send a message with the News Forum.

Send message to all participants

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How do I send a message to all my students? Can I message everyone in the class and not individually?

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An instructor can send messages to all participants at once via the Participants page. Follow the steps below to send a message to everyone in a course. 

Send messages

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How do I send a message to a student? I don't want to send an announcement to the whole class but only a message to one student?

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Messages can be sent between users on any TLEARN site, they are sent withing the TLEARN platform similar to a text if the user is online. When users are offline the message will also be sent in an email. Follow the steps below to send a message to another participant in your course by accessing their profile.