Emailing students

Announcements

• post information 
• and simultaneously
• broadcast that same information in an email to all NUoodle course members (including themselves)

• Email sent from NUoodle is sent in bulk to the world wide web and lands in whatever email client students and faculty use.
• Factors that affect the delivery of email from NUoodle to client include
  • the options that users select in both NUoodle and their personal email client
  • how ISP's handle bulk email
• Fortunately, all announcements posted in NUoodle persist so all students and faculty may click [announcements] in NUoodle to see any and all topics sent by the faculty.
• Unlike other [Forums] only faculty may post to the [Announcements] forum.
• In combined enrollment (meta) courses, faculty may edit the settings of the forum, find [Common module settings] and change the group mode to [Separate] groups to send announcements to only selected groups.
• The [Announcement] forum is automatically placed at the top of all NUoodle courses every semester.
  
• When importing or re-using content from a previous course, the previous [Announcement] forum may be imported, It is recommended that faculty delete the duplicate [Announcement] activity,