The Course Message Tool in Blackboard
The Course Message tool enables you to send and receive e-mail messages only
to other accounts inside your Blackboard course. The E-mail tool is another tool,
which can only send messages from Blackboard to external email accounts.
Read a Course Message
In your Blackboard course,
1. In the left column course menu,
click Course Messages
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2. Click Inbox
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3. Click a message title below
Subject
4. When you have finished reading
the message, click the
breadcrumb or your browser Back
button to return to the inbox.
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Reply to a Course Message
1. In the course menu, click Course
Messages
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2. Click Inbox.
3. Click a message title below
Subject
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4. Click Reply.
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5. In the drop menu, click Reply to Sender or
Reply All.
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6. In the Reply to Message form
page, scroll down to #2
Compose Message and type
your reply into the text area
before the original message.
7. When you are finished, click Submit.
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Send a New Course Message
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1. In the course menu, click Course
Messages
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2. In Course Messages, click Create
Message
3. Click the To button.
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4. In the left text area, hold the Ctrl key
and click the recipient names you
want.
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5. Click the right arrow to move each
recipient to the recipient box.
6. If you want to Cc recipients, click
on the Cc button and repeat
steps 4 and 5.
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7. In #2 Compose a Message,
type in a Subject.
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8. Type your message in the Body.
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9. Click the Browse button to
browse your computer files and add a file as an attachment as needed.
10. When you are finished, click Submit to send the message.
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