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How to send an email to all students in a D2L course.

The procedure for sending an email to all students in a course is slightly different in Desire2Learn as compared to Blackboard Vista. This tutorial illustrates the best practice in D2L for emailing all students in a given course.

From the Course Home Page, click on the "Classlist" text or icon:

Screen Shot of D2L

The Classlist is the area from which you can send an email to all students. The Classlist defaults to showing a list of everyone in the class, including instructors and teaching assistants. Click on the "Students" tab to see only the students enrolled in the course.

Screen Shot of D2L

If you have a lot of students enrolled in a course, the Classlist may default to displaying them on multiple pages. If you see a message like the Page: 1 of 2 below, click on the dropdown menu and set the per page to 50, 100 or 200 depending on the number of students in the course. The system will remember this setting, so you will only have to do this once.

Screen Shot of D2L

Now that you have all the students on a single page, you can email all of them by clicking on the "Email everyone on this tab" option.

Screen Shot of D2L

This will open a "Compose New Message" window and automatically populate all of the student email addresses in the course. Compose and send your message from here.

Screen Shot of D2L