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• Announcements is a tool within every course created in AsULearn. Instructors post a message topic in the forum and the post will then be automatically emailed to all class members with a 15-minute delay to give you time to edit, you can check the option: Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay. If time critical, QuickMail is considered to be speedier than Announcements.
  Note: In order for the message to be sent from Announcements, the AsULearn site must be available to students.
  
  
• The Quickmail block is is added to each AsULearn course by default. Send email to the entire class, groups, or individual students. Quickmail is sent to each participant as a blind copy (bcc:), so other recipients are not notified of classmates who also received the email. 
  
  Quickmail Use Case: 5 students struggled on the first exam. Instructor sends one Quickmail to the 5 students with a generic subject of "Concerned about your progress" and a generic body expressing concern, reiterating office hours, available labs, study resources, etc. Each student will receive the message in the blind, and it will appear it came only to them.
  Note: The AsULearn site does not need to be available to students in order to send.

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To Use the Quickmail Block

To Send Quickmail

1. Locate the Quickmail block on the main course page.
   
   
   
   
2. Click Compose Course Message.  (see below for Other Quickmail options)
   
   
   
   
3. Click the dropdown list for Who should receive this message? Selections include All in Course, roles (everyone in the course who has that role), groups, and individuals by name.
   • Click items in the list to add them to the To address field.
   • To remove an item, click the × on the nameplate in the To field.
   • Click off the list to close it.
     
     
4. Click the dropdown list for Who should NOT receive this message? to Exclude anyone that is included in your selections above. For example, to send a message to everyone in the Apples group except Woodhugh Bugoff (who is a member of Apples), select Apples (Group) to receive the message (previous step), and then select Woodhugh to be excluded from receiving it.
   
   
5. In the message area, enter a Subject for your message and compose the email you want to send. NOTE: You can specify in Configuration settings to automatically Prepend Course Name to the subject of email messages. Apply options below.
   
   
   
   
   • You can use data fields in the Body of your message to be replaced by the users' or course's corresponding data, e.g., [:fullname;] will be replaced in the email with each user's full name.
   • You can select one or more files to be Attached to the message.
   • You can use a message Signature (your name and additional information formatted like you want) that you have set up.
   • Send message as an Email to be delivered to each user's email account, or Moodle mail to be delivered to each user's AsULearn Messaging drawer.*
   • Send at a later date and time; click Enable, then set date and time for message to be sent.
   • Select Yes to Receive a send report. You can View Sent Messages from the Quickmail block. Click View by a message to view the message and its delivery report.*
     
     * Your preference for default selection can be set under Configuration for the Quickmail block (see below).
     
     
6. Click the Send Message button to send or schedule sending your message. Click Save Draft to save what you have composed and return to it later. Or click Cancel to abandon the message entirely.

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Other Quickmail options

View Drafts that you have saved to Edit or Duplicate the message to modify and Send, or Delete.

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