Notifications & Communicating with Students (FAQs)

How do I make sure students receive an email when I send an announcement (or inbox message 'conversation')? 

 

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Students may turn on or off any notifications at their choosing.

There is no need to tick a box to send an email to students when posting an announcement or using the 'inbox' feature to message students. By default, students' notifications are set to email them when these are created by instructors.

Please note - your settings may be 'off' when self-created announcements or conversations. If you'd like a copy sent to your email, you will need to adjust your notifications for those settings.

However, students may edit the default settings so that they do not receive notifications, or do not receive them immediately (end of day / end of week options).

 

How do I send an announcement to students only, and not to the other instructors on the course?

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By default, announcements will be sent to all users enrolled, both students and teacher users.

 

If you wish to communicate with students without communciating with other instructors, you may choose to use the 'conversations' inbox feature, which is on the far-left course navigation bar. 

Create a new message by clicking the icon at top right, and choose a course. Select 'all students' and include your message. This will send only to the students on the course.

If you have reason to section off your students for another purpose, you may also address announcements to specific sectiosn only. If your students are in sections 1, 2, 3 and 4, as an example, and your teacher users are not in any particular section, you may address the announcement only to section 1, or to all sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 - or any combination available. This announcement would be available only to users in the sections, and not to the other instructors.

 

How do I receive an email notification for announcements I send out?

 

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By default, announcements created by you are NOT emailed to you. You can manually change this setting.

 

If you wish to receive a copy of your own announcement via email, go into your profile and adjust your notification settings so that 'announcements created by me' is turned on.

 

How do I find students' email addresses?

 

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We have a separate resource on that available that explains how to find student emails by downloading the course roster.