D2L - How to Email the Students in Your D2L Course - For Instructors

Objective

Following these steps will compose and send an email to either the entire classlist for the course, or to the students you individually select.

Environment

D2L

Before You Begin

Students must opt-in to have emails sent from D2L appear in their normal Spartan Mail mailbox. They can follow the instructions in this article (link).

Steps

  1. Open the course in question
  2. Select the Communication tab and then select Classlist
  3. Then do one of two things:
    • Select the Email Classlist button to email the whole class at once; or
    • Check the boxes next to the individual student(s) you want to receive the email
  4. Select the blue Send Email button to open the compose window and type the desired message to send
  5. Select the blue Send button when the email is ready to send

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