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The Send Email tool in a course is a send-only tool. You can send messages from your course to course members’ external email accounts without having to launch your external email program. This function uses the same email addresses that are available in WebFAC, therefore, if you are more comfortable using WebFAC to send email, you should continue to do so.
Email you send from a course is received in the recipient’s external email account, such as TestStudent@wustl.edu. Replies to these email messages go to the sender’s external email account and are not sent to the course.
Blackboard Learn keeps no record of sent or received emails. When you receive or send an email, the email will appear in the Inbox of your external email client. Keep a copy of important messages in case you need them at a later date.
You can send email to the following people in a course:
- All Users: Sends email to all users in the course.
- All Groups: Sends email to all of the groups in a specified course.
- All Assistant to Instructor Users: Sends email to all of the course assistants in a specified course.
- All Student Users: Sends an email to all students in the course.
- All Instructor Users: Sends email to all of the instructors for a specified course.
- Select Users: Sends email to select users.
- Select Groups: Sends email to select groups.
Recipients of each email will not see the email addresses of other recipients.
Before You Begin
Blackboard Learn will NOT recognize files or email addresses with spaces or special characters, such as #, &, %, and $. In general, use only alphanumeric file names and addresses in Blackboard Learn.
Do not send email through Blackboard Learn without content in the subject line. Leaving the subject line blank can prevent the message from being delivered.
How to Send Email
- On the course menu, click Tools.
- On the Tools page, click Send Email.
- On the Select Users or Select Groups page, select the recipients in the Available to Select box and click the right-pointing arrow to move them into the Selected box. A back arrow is available to move a user out of the recipient list. Click Invert Selection and the selected users are no longer highlighted and those users that were not selected will be highlighted.
For Windows, to select multiple users in a list, press the SHIFT key and click the first and last users. To select users out of sequence, press the CTRL key and click each user needed. For Macs, use the COMMAND key instead of the CTRL key. You can also use the Select All function to send an email to all users.
- Type your Subject.
- Type your Message. A copy of the message is sent to the sender. A receipt page appears after the message is sent listing all recipients. The receipt page does not confirm that users received the message. It only confirms that the message was sent.
- Click Attach a File to browse for files from your computer. You can attach multiple files. After you add one file, the option to attach another file appears.
- Click Submit.
