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Moodle offers a couple ways to communicate with students: a News Forum, Quickmail, and a Feedback block. Both will be covered below with recommendations for using both.
News Forum
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This is a special forum which only allows the teacher in a course to post. the purpose of this forum is to provide class announcements. This forum will send messages to all students in a course. If the teacher desires to send messages to a subset of students another method is necessary.
Quickmail
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This blocks allows the instructor to email students from within the Moodle course. This tool makes it easy to select and send a message to a single student, a small group of students, or the entire class. The Quickmail block supports attachments and email signatures. Please read through
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the Quickmail book
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to learn more about this tool. Note: Quickmail does require the user to login into their Moodle account.
Feedback
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Feedback may be given to students through many of the tools in Moodle including (but not limited to) assignments, quizzes, and forums.
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