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Sending Email

The Send Email feature in Blackboard allows you to send emails to all of your students, fellow instructors, teaching assistants or even just individual students. You can find this feature in the Control Panel, in the bottom-left corner of the Blackboard window.

Sending email to All Users

In order to send an email to all users enrolled upon your course (e.g. instructor's, students, observers etc.) go to the Control Panel and follow the these steps.

1. Click Send Email in the Course Tools Pane

2. Click All Users or any other option

You will see several options for sending an email to any user participating in your course. The steps involved in sending email from Blackboard are the same for all the different user options – with one exception in the To address field. The most commonly used options are:

The All Users link emails everyone in the course, whether they are students, co-instructors, or observers, as recipients.
The Single/Select option shows you the list of available users so that you can select the recipients individually.

Decide to whom you’re emailing and click on the link that corresponds to your intended recipients.

3. Enter the subject of your email in the Subject field

Ensure that you include the course name, or some other identifier in the Subject field for your email as other users receiving it may not know from which course the email originates.

4. Type your email message in the Message text box

Note: A copy of the email you're sending to other users will also sent to you.

5. If you want to receive a return receipt, enable the Return Receipt check box.

The return receipt is an email message you receive when the email is successfully delivered to the recipient.

Note: Even though you enabled the Return Receipt option for your email, unless the recipient's email system is set up to and the recipient authorises the return request, you might not receive notification that the email was successfully delivered to its recipient.

6. To attach a file to your email, click the Attach a File link

You also have the option to attach a file to an email if you wish. Once you click to attach a file the following options appear:

6a. Click the Browse button
The Choose File window opens. Locate the file on your computer. After you select the file, the path to the file is displayed in the Attachments field.

6b. To attach additional files, click the Attach Another File link
Another field is created with a separate Browse button and Remove link. You can repeat Steps 6a & 6b to attach additional files.

7. Click the Submit button

When you click the Submit button the email leaves the Blackboard environment and is delivered to each user's email address. After clicking Submit, you will receive notification on a new page: The Receipt: Success Email page is displayed with the list of email recipients.

Sending email to Selected Users

The steps involved in sending email from your Blackboard course to selected users are similar to the steps in the preceding section. However, because you need to select the users yourself, the To address field lets you do just that.

From the Control Panel page, click Send Email under Course Tools and follow these steps:

1. If you want to use any of the Single or Select options to send the email, click the link for the right recipients (users, groups or observers)

2. Click the name of the user/users you want to send an email to.

To select multiple users, hold the Ctrl button (or cmd on Mac) while clicking names. The names are highlighted after you select them.

3. Click the arrow pointing toward the Selected field.

The selected users (the highlighted names) are then transferred from the Available to Select field to the Selected field. Note that the invert button underneath each selection box allows you to invert your selection (deselect it if it's selected or select it if it's deselected).

4. Enter the rest of the information you want to include in your email such as the subject and message.

If you want to attach a file, click the File Attachment link, select the file, and then click the Submit button.

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This page was last updated Friday, November 23, 2012