Email

Announcements and Discussion Forum emails

If the user has subscribed to a discussion forum they will receive emails copies of the forum postings after 5.00pm. By default this is in the form of a single email that is a daily digest (compilation) of all the posting in all the forums they are subscribed to. All users are automatically subscribed to the announcement and news forums, they can’t unsubscribe from these forums.

Normal emails

These emails are sent immediately and are shown as coming directly from you. They do not have any indication that they came from Moodle. If a student replies to an email it will be sent to your university email address. You are recommended to include the module code at the beginning of the first line.

The maximum number of participants that can receive a bulk email is 200. 

Quickmail

This is a block that can be added by tutors that enables emails to be sent to one or more individuals.  Emails sent by Quickmail are sent immediately to the university email address of the recipient and appear to come directly from the sender. They are not added to the daily digest.

How to use Quickmail (Movie 1.20 min)

More about Quickmail

Sending emails from the Participants’ list

These emails are sent immediately and are shown as coming directly from you. They do not have any indication that they came from Moodle. If a student replies to an email it will be sent to your university email address.

You are recommended to include the module code at the beginning of the first line and to include yourself as a recipient so that you can confirm it has been sent.

Send an email to individual students

1. Go to Participants
2. By default there is not a Visible or Separate Groups drop down list at the top of the list. If there is, select All paricipants.
3. For each student you wish to email, put a tick against the their entry.
4. Select Send message/email from the With selected users … drop down box at the bottom of the list
5. Write and send the email.

Remember to include the module code at the beginning of the first line.

Sending emails to a Moodle group

By default Moodle webs are set to No groups, this needs to be changed to either Visible groups or Separate groups.

Change settings

1. From the modules home page click on Administration/Settings
2. Scroll down and set Group mode to either Visible groups or Separate groups
3. LEAVE Force unchanged (otherwise this will override your current group settings)

Send a group email

1. To email a group go to Participants
2. Select the group you want to email from the Visible or Separate Groups drop down list at the top of the list.
3. Click the Select all button at the bottom of the list (or put a tick against each student’s entry)
4. Select Send message/email from the With selected users … drop down box at the bottom of the list
5. Write and send the email.

Remember to include the module code at the beginning of the first line.