Sending Email from Blackboard
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1. After you are logged into Blackboard, click on the course from which you
would like to send an email.
2. In the Tools box at the left hand side of the screen, click on
“Communication.”
3. Click on “Send Email.”
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4. Choose one of the available options:
- All Users: Send email to all users in the course
- All Groups: Send email to all groups in the course
- All Student Users: Send email to all student users in the course
- All Teaching Assistant Users: Send email to all teaching assistants in
the course
- All Instructor Users: Send email to all instructors of the course
- Select Users: Allows you to choose users in the course to whom you
will send Email
- Select Groups: Allows you to choose groups in the course to which
you will send email
5. Enter the subject of your email and the message into the appropriate
boxes.
6. If no attachment is needed, click “Submit.” If you need to attach a file,
click on the “attach a file” link. Click on the “browse” button to locate your
file. Locate and double-click on the file you want to attach to the email
message.
7. Click on the “Submit” button to send the email. You will get a receipt
notifying you that your email was successfully sent.
NOTE: Email sent using this feature will only be sent to FSU email accounts.
Outside email accounts cannot be used with this feature. To read email sent
by class participants from within Blackboard, access messages the same way
you normally do. You can access your FSU email account at
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http://frostburg.edu/mail. Your username and password are the same as your
Blackboard username and password, but you have to enter your whole email
address as your username (i.e. jsmith09@frostburg.edu).
8. Another way for you to send email through Blackboard is from your
course menu. Once you are logged in to Blackboard and see your courses
displayed, click on Send Email from the Tools box on the left hand side of
the screen.
9. This will lead you to a list of your courses. Select the course that you want
to send an email in.
10. This takes you to the page where you select which users you want to send
the email to. From here follow Steps 4 through 7 to send the email.
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