Send announcements to students

It’s easy to send emails to students in your courses using Moodle. Each Moodle site contains an Announcements forum at the top of the page.

Using the Announcements has several advantages:

  1. Messages are saved inside the Moodle site so they can be easily found later.
  2. Important messages can be “pinned” to the top of the forum.
  3. Messages are also emailed to students/teachers.

How to send a message to a year group:

  1. Go to your Moodle year site.
  2. Click the Announcements link.
    This image shows the Announcements link in a Moodle site
  3. Click the Add a new topic button.
    This image shows the Add a new topic button in Moodle announcements forum
  4. Enter a Subject line.
  5. Type your Message in the text editor window.
  6. Upload any files you wish to attach.
  7. If you want the message to remain at the top of the Announcements forum, click the Pinned checkbox.
  8. By default, messages are not sent immediately and have a 15 minute editing period. If you want the message to be sent immediately, click the Send forum post notifications with no editing-time delay checkbox.
  9. Click the Post to forum button.
    This image shows you the form to enter subject, message, attachments for a Moodle announcement

Sending an announcement to all year groups in a course

To send an announcement to all students in a course you should post an announcement to the All Year course site.

  1. Log in to Moodle.
  2. Go to the All Year course site.
  3. Click the Announcements forum link at the top of the Moodle site.
  4. Click the Add a new topic button.
  5. Follow steps 4-9 as outlined in above section.

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