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Sending Email

Overview

If you need to contact all or some of the students in your course, you can use the Classlist tool to send an email to one or more users. All recipients will be added to the BCC field by default.

If you are contacting all of your students, you might consider posting a course Announcement in addition to or instead of sending an email.

Instructions

To Compose & Send email, go to the Classlist under the Communication menu.

D2L Brightspace Navbar with the Communications dropdown menu expanded out. There is a red box around the "Classlist" option in the dropdown menu.

To email the entire class:

  1. Click the Select All check box on the top menu bar.
  2. Click Email.

Labeled screenshot of the Classlist tool showing a list of sample users, along with red boxes around 1. a select-all checkbox and 2. an "Email" button above the list of users.

To email and individual student click on the student’s name.

A user named "Test Faculty1" in the Classlist tool, with a red box around their hyperlinked name.

In both cases the Compose Message window will appear. Along with standard email functionality there is also a standard WYSIWYG editor that will allow you to attach course files, embed YouTube Videos as well as record audio.

Pop-up window called "Compose New Message". The window contains fields for To, Cc, Bcc, Subject, and Body. There is a red box around the "Send" button in the top-left corner of the window.

Viewing Sent Email

To view emails you have previously sent through D2L Brightspace:

  1. Click the “Envelope” icon in the Minibar at the very top of the page.
  2. Click the Email link.  This will take you to the “Compose New Message” page.

Labeled screenshot of D2L Brightspace minibar, with red boxes around 1. the envelope icon representing email and 2. the "Email" link in an expanded email menu.

From the “Compose New Message” page, click the Sent Mail  button on the right side of the page.

Page titled "Compose New Message" with fields for To, Subject, and Body. There is a red box around the "Sent Mail" button in the top-right corner of the page.

You will then see all emails you have previously sent through D2L Brightspace.

Page titled "Sent Mail" showing a single previously sent email message with the subject line "Cool Project!!!"

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