How do I send emails in Brightspace?

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Brightspace offers the option for students, peers, and instructors participating in a course to email one another for the purposes of staying in communication for learning, teaching, community, and collaboration in the course. All class messages must adhere to policies for appropriate use of Brightspace (Brightspace terms and conditions).

Connect with peers and instructors in Brightspace

In Brightspace, you can connect with an individual (e.g. peer or instructor), a group (e.g. for a project or study group) or the class (e.g. sharing course presentations).

Send an email to an individual (e.g. instructor, TA or peer)

To email an individual class participants from the Classlist tool

Select Classlist from the navbar.
Click the checkbox for the person(s) you wish to contact and click Email
Type your message in and hit Send.

Note: your online status will always display as offline in the Classlist unless you choose to enable this feature in your profile settings

Note: your online status will always display as offline unless you choose to enable this feature in your profile settings

Send an email to a group

To email a group of class participants from the Classlist tool

Select Classlist from the navbar.
click “Email Classlist”
Use the View By drop-down menu to choose the specific Section/ Group you need to contact.

Note: your online status will always display as offline in the Classlist unless you choose to enable this feature in your profile settings

Send an email to the class

To email the class:

Select Classlist from the navbar.
click “Email Classlist”

Note: your online status will always display as offline in the Classlist unless you choose to enable this feature in your profile settings

Students should confirm with their instructors before messaging the class to determine whether the email is appropriate for the course.

Manage your name & email

Students can control the name and email displayed within Brightspace on MyPage. You don’t need to disclose a personal email address if you prefer not to. UVic recommends that you use your uvic.ca email address for university activity.

Appropriate use of Brightspace

When you interact within the university community and with UVic’s online learning resources, you are subject to university policies and expectations including: Online Student Conduct for respectful and supportive learning environments and Non-academic Misconduct and Acceptable use of Electronic Information Resources (including using Brightspace for non-University communication, or sending mass communications without appropriate authorization). See Brightspace terms and conditions for more information.
To report concerns about the content of email received via Brightspace, please contact onlineconduct@uvic.ca

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This post was last updated:

September 25, 2020

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