Information Technology

Send email from your Moodle Course

All course membership information including any teaching assistants added, co-instructors, etc. are maintained directly in the Moodle course. That means that Moodle has the most immediate information from the Registrar office along with any change the professor chose to make in a course. Since Moodle has the most correct information, Moodle will be the mechanism used to send class group messages and e-mails. This does NOT require that you use the Moodle course in general; there is no problem with using a Moodle course to send messages to students even with the course disabled (students cannot see it). There are two methods available to send e-mail to the course members; either one maintains a record for the professor in the Moodle course.

Send an announcement e-mail to course participants:

1. Log into Moodle
2. Click the course name
3. On the right, click Add a new topic under the latest news block. Posting a latest news topic is only available to a course instructor. Posting a news item sends an e-mail to each of the students in the class at the same time.

1. Log into Moodle
2. Click the course name
3. Click Participants (on the right)
4. If there are multiple pages, you can choose to Show All using the button at the bottom of the page
5. Choose sending a message to all members by clicking the Select All button at the bottom of the page, or select from the check boxes to the right of each name to send a message to a subset of the members
6. With the members selected, pull down the With selected users menu at the bottom of the page and click Add/send message

This document last reviewed August 24, 2012.