D2L Brightspace: Email options in the platform

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Overview

FACULTY: This article reviews the various email options available to faculty in D2L Brightspace. Email in D2L functions much like a postal drop box; you can send messages out to student accounts, but you cannot interact with your university email inside of D2L.

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Emailing everyone on the class list

  1. From the course landing page, select Other Tools in the navigation bar and then select Classlist from the dropdown menu
  2. Select the Email Classlist button
    Screenshot showing where the Email Classlist button is located
  3. To email everyone in the class, scroll to the bottom of the classlist and select the blue Send Email button.
  4. An email window will open with everyone on the classlist in the BCC field.
  5. (Recommendation) Put your own email in the To field as a fail-safe in case students reply directly to the email.
  6. nter a Subject and type your message in the Body field.
  7. Add any attachments if necessary.
  8. Select the Send button at the bottom to send the email.

Emailing an individual student

  1. From the course landing page, select Communications in the navigation bar and then select Classlist in the dropdown menu.
  2. Click on the name of the student you want to email.
    Screenshot of classlist, highlighting a student’s name (which is a link to the email dialogue popup)
  3. An email window will open.
  4. Enter a Subject and type your message in the Body field.
  5. Select the Send button when finished.

Emailing several students

  1. From the course landing page, select Communications in the navigation bar and then select Classlist in the dropdown menu.
  2. Select the check boxes in the first column next to the students you want to contact.
  3. Select the Email button at the top of the table.
  4. An email window will open with the selected students' names in the BCC field.
  5. Enter a Subject and type your message in the Body field.
  6. Select the Send button when finished.

Microsoft 365 Widget

The Microsoft 365 widget is located on the main D2L landing page. Once you sign in to your Microsoft 365 account with your starID, it can display a list of the most recent emails in your Metro State account, recent calendar appointments, and documents in your OneDrive folder. Selecting the Outlook, Calendar, or OneDrive tabs will open those applications in a new browser tab. Accessing an individual email, calendar event, or OneDrive document within the widget itself is currently not supported.

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