Using Blackboard-Sending Email

At some point in the course you're going to want to send an email to your instructor or to your classmates. You can easily accomplish this within the the Blackboard structure.

Click on the Communication link as seen in the blackboard menu bar or as part of the Course Tools.

Click on the Send Email link.

Here you are given a lot of choices: if you want your message to go to everyone select the All Users or to just a select few, click on Select Users.

All Users

When you select All users you will be sending an email message to everyone (instructors, teaching assistants, etc.) enrolled or assigned to the course. Type in a descriptive Subject in the Subject field. As a rule include the course number so everyone knows which course your message pertains to. Next type in your Message. Make sure your message is clear and concise. If you have attachments, click on the Add button to attach a file (s). When attaching files make sure they are in a format that everyone can receive (see hints section if you aren't sure you understand this). And when you are finished, click on the Submit button.

Select Users

If you don't want message to go to everyone, click on Select Users. You will be given a list of the enrolled user Highlight the name you want to send your message to and click on the arrow to add them to the selected list. You can use the shift key to highlight more than one name in a continuous row, or COMMAD-click (mac) or ALT-click (pc) to select more than one name that is not continuous. Select those you want to receive your email and complete the rest of the form as mentioned above.

A copy of the message with automatically be sent to your email for your records. That's it. It's pretty easy, isn't it!