You can find the Blackboard email tool in these areas: On the course menu, select Tools > Send Email. On the Control Panel, select Course Tools > Send Email. On the My Institution tab, select Tools > Send Email and select a course. On the Send Email page, select a link, such as All Users.
The email tool allows you to send email to other people in your course without launching a separate email program, such as Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo. You can send email to individual users or to groups of users.
To select multiple users in a list on a Windows computer, press the Shift key and select the first and last users . To select users out of sequence, press the Ctrl key and select each user needed. On a Mac, press the Command key instead of the Ctrl key.
By default, users can't add file attachments to messages or create personal folders to store messages in. Select the check boxes to allow these options. You might disable these options to help save disk space and not allow users to use course messages to store content.
Each institution has different communication preferences and policies. Some institutions may want to limit how students communicate with others in their courses. Your institution can choose not to allow students to reply to or create messages in their courses. Only the student role has these restrictions.
When course messages are read-only for students, instructors are alerted when they create a message.
When students view their Original course messages, the Create Message, Reply, and Forward options have been removed.
Course messages are private and secure text-based communication that occurs within your course among course members.
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You can add a link to the course menu for immediate access to course messages. You can also customize the name of the link.