Instructors can send email to individuals who participate in a particular course or organization from the Send Email page. Emails can be sent to individual users or to groups of users within the course.
Students can also use this tool to send email to staff and students who are enrolled on the module
Instructors: Sending Email to All Users
- Click on Course Tools from the menu on the left side of the page.
- Scroll down and click on Send Email.
- Click All Users.
- Enter a title for your email into the Subject field and type in your Message. You can attach a file to your email by clicking on Attach a file.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Submit button.
Send Email to Single User / Selected User(s)
Follow the steps below to open the Send Email-Compose Message page.
- Click on Course Tools from the menu on the left side of the page.
- Scroll down and click on Send Email.
- Click on Single/Select Users, depending on whether or not Edit Mode is on.
- Select the users you want to send an email to, from Items to Select, and click on the right arrow to add them to the Selected Items list. An email will only go out to those listed below Selected Items.
- Enter a title for your email into the Subject field and type in your Message. You can attach a file to your email by clicking on Attach a file.
- Click the Submit button.
Blackboard email tool for students
The email tool in Blackboard allows students to email everyone who is enrolled on the module – this includes all instructors and any external examiners or other external guests who may be enrolled. As such, this facility should only be use where it is wholly necessary, and with caution.
Students should be clearly instructed as to the rules of usage when using an email link in blackboard, to mitigate against the potential for inappropriate messages to be sent.
The email tool can be added to a module shell as follows:
1. Click the plus icon in the main menu and click Tool Link
2. From the drop down menu select Email, make it Available to Users, and click Submit
3. An email link will appear in the main navigation area – students can use this to email everyone who is enrolled on the module.
To remove the email tool from the Blackboard menu
1. Hover your cursor over the email link and click the grey icon
2. Click Delete
More Information
Q. Can students see other students’ email addresses?
A. No, since Blackboard uses the Bcc: field to send messages, all actual addresses are suppressed.
Q. Can I check my email through Blackboard?
A. No, messages are sent through Blackboard, but end up in your DMU email account.