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Email

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Instructors can send email to individuals who participate in a particular course or organization from Course Tools in the Control Panel.

  • Click the Control Panel icon.
  • Find the Course Tools panel.
  • Click Send E-mail

All email messages and attachments are sent to the Seton Hall email account of the student or instructor. This cannot be changed. The email function serves only as a way to send email to the enrollment list of a course or organization. Copies of sent messages will also go to the sender’s Seton Hall email account.


 

Organization

The Send email page will appear as shown below.

 

 

Available Functions

The following functions are available from the Send email page.

  • All Users: Sends email to all users in a specified course or organization.
  • All Groups: Sends email to all of the groups in a specified course or organization.
  • All Teaching Assistants: Sends email to all of the teaching assistants in a specified course.
  • All Instructors: Sends email to all of the instructors for a specified course.
  • Select Users: Sends email to a single user or select users in a specified course.
  • Select Groups: Send email to a single group or select groups in a course.

 

Send Email -
All Users

 

Click All Users and the Send email page will appear as shown below.

Note: To minimize the distraction of long lists of To: addresses, and to make the reuse of the address lists more difficult for potential spammers all destination addresses are placed into the mail message’s Bcc: (Blind Carbon Copy) field upon receipt.

 

Entry Fields
Select Students
To: All users enrolled in the course will appear
From: The user's email address will automatically be displayed in this field.
Subject: Enter the subject of the email.
Message: Enter the email message.
Select Message Options
Copy of message to self: Click the check box to send a copy of the message to the sender.
Add attachments
Add: Click here to add attachments.

 

Special Note

You can also send e-mail using the Tools box over to the left if you have designed your course to include this feature.

   
 
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