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Blackboard 8: Sending an Email

How do I send an email using Blackboard 8?
Solution

Your Blackboard course site will have an email address for each student registered for your course site. The Send Email tool in your Blackboard course site will allow you to send an email to all of the course participants, or specific individuals or groups.

Log into Blackboard, and go into the desired course. Once in the student view, click on the Control Panel Icon at the bottom of your course menu. In the control panel for your course, the Send Email tool link is in the Course Tools area.

On the next page, you can choose who you wish to send the email to, such as All Groups, Select Groups, or All Users on the course site.
A new feature in Blackboard 8.0 is the option to send an email to All Student Users.

Once you have chosen the recipient(s) of your email, click on the relevant link to begin composing your email. Type in your subject and message in the text box.
Below the message textbox you will see two options:

Return Receipt: Should you wish to verify that your email was sent to the specified recipients, check the Return Receipt checkbox.
Attachments: Click on the Attach a file link to add a file to your email.

If you want to add an attachment to your email, click on the Attach a file link, and click on the Browse button.

Browse for the file on your computer you want to attach and then select Open.
You will be returned to the page where you were drafting your email in Blackboard. Here you can attach additional files by choosing the Attach Another File link.
Finally, click Submit to send your email.

Tip:

A copy of your email will be sent to you automatically. It is important to note, however, that Blackboard will not save a copy of your sent email in your course site.

This Blackboard tutorial is also available as a video(Flash Player required) or as a downloadable PDF (Adobe Reader required).

Sending an Email Video Tutorial

Sending an Email PDF Tutorial

Click here to download a PDF version of this tutorial.

For a complete list of ITS Blackboard tutorials, please visit www.nyu.edu/its/blackboard/tutorials.

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	Log into Blackboard, and go into the desired course. Once in the student view, click on the Control Panel Icon at the bottom of your course menu. In the control panel for your course, the Send Email tool link is in the Course Tools area.
On the next page, you can choose who you wish to send the email to, such as All Groups, Select Groups, or All Users on the course site. A new feature in Blackboard 8.0 is the option to send an email to All Student Users.
Once you have chosen the recipient(s) of your email, click on the relevant link to begin composing your email. Type in your subject and message in the text box. Below the message textbox you will see two options:
	Return Receipt: Should you wish to verify that your email was sent to the specified recipients, check the Return Receipt checkbox. Attachments: Click on the Attach a file link to add a file to your email.
If you want to add an attachment to your email, click on the Attach a file link, and click on the Browse button.
Browse for the file on your computer you want to attach and then select Open. You will be returned to the page where you were drafting your email in Blackboard. Here you can attach additional files by choosing the Attach Another File link. Finally, click Submit to send your email.