How to send email through Blackboard

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[edit] Sending Email through Blackboard

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The purpose of this exercise is to show how you can use the email feature of Blackboard to communicate with your students and teaching assistants. To access the email feature, go to the control panel of your course, and click on the Send E-mail link inside the course tools area.

After you click the Send E-mail link you will see the following screen.

To send a mass email choose one of the selections with the prefix All. To send to specific users choose a selection with the prefix Single. If you choose to send a mass email you will see a screen similar to the one below.

If you choose to send to selected users you will have a Recipients section where you can select individual users. Select a user then click the top arrow pointing right. Hold down the crtl key or shift key to select more the one user.

You can also send attachments by clicking on the Add button in the attachment section. This will take you to the Add attachment screen where you can search for the file you want to attach.

Adding an attachement on Blackboard

File attachment screen

You can add multiple files to the email by clicking on the Add button again. Make sure that the attachments you send are fairly small—if the people you are communicating with have slow internet connections, it is difficult for them to download large files.