Send and receive messages
You can use the Messaging function to communicate with one or more individual students, with a group, or with all course participants. Your message is delivered in a pop-up window to recipients who are logged in to Moodle at the time the message is sent. If the recipients is not logged in to Moodle at the time, the message will be sent as an email.
Students can also use Moodle messaging to message their group members if you have enabled group messaging.
Sending messages
You can send messages to individual, multiple or groups of students. If you would like to message all students in your class, making a forum post may be more suitable. For more information, see Forums.
- In the top menu, click Participants.
- You can use the filters to filter students by role, status or group, then click Apply filters.
- Select individual or multiple students with the checkboxes beside each students name or select all students using the checkbox in the top row.
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page. From the With selected… drop down list, select Send a message.
- A message pop-up window will appear.
- Type your message into the box and when finished, click Send message.
- You’ll receive a green notification to confirm that the message was sent, click the (x) to remove it.
- Sent Messages and subsequent replies will now appear in your messages drawer.
Messaging options
Once you have started a message thread, there are a number of options to manage conversations in the message drawer.
- To view a message thread, click on it.
- You can write a reply message in the Write a message text box, then click the arrow icon to send.
- You can also include emojis in your message with the smiley face(emoji) icon. From the Emoji picker window, click on an emoji to select it. You can filter emojis by theme with the tabs along the top row, or use the search bar. Once an emoji is selected, you will see a larger preview and the text description of the emoji.
- With the ellipses icon (...) you can choose a number of actions:
- View user info: You can perform a few different options for the user depending on your role in the unit.
- Star conversion: Star a private message thread to make them easily accessible in the starred section.
- Block user: If you do not want this user to be able to contact you, and you would like to stop receiving their messages.
- Mute conversation: If you would like to stop receiving notifications for a message thread.
- Delete conversation: Remove a message thread from your messages drawer. Please note,
- You will receive a prompt to confirm you would like to delete the message thread.
- Click Delete to delete the message thread.
- Add to contacts: You can add a person to your contacts to send them messages directly from the message drawer. This can be useful for contacts you will contact frequently.
- You will receive a prompt to confirm you would like to add the user as a contact.
- The user will receive an Add to contact request. You will be added to each other's contact lists when the user accepts your request.
Allow students to send and receive messages from group members
Students can use Moodle messaging to find and message their group members if you have enabled group messaging. You can do this for existing groups or when creating new groups.
To enable messaging for new groups
When creating new groups, in the general settings ensure that Group messaging has been set to Yes. For more information, see Create groups and groupings in Moodle.
To enable messaging for existing groups
- In the top menu, click Participants. From the drop down menu, select Groups.
- Select the group you would like to enable group messaging for from the list of Groups, then select Enable messaging.
Note: You can select multiple groups at once by holding down the SHIFT key.
- Once group messaging is enabled, students can message their group members from the Moodle messaging panel.
You can use the Messaging function to communicate with one or more individual students, with a group, or with all course participants. Your message is delivered in a pop-up window to recipients who are logged in to Moodle at the time the message is sent, and is sent as an email to recipients who are not logged in. Messaging is a means of communicating privately with individuals.
Sending messages
You can send messages to individual, multiple or groups of students. If you would like to message all students in your class, making a forum post may be more suitable. For more information, see Forums.
- In the Nav Drawer, click on Participants.
- Select individual or multiple students with the checkboxes in the Select column
OR
- Use the dropdown list to filter by role or group and click Select ALL
- From the With selected… drop down list, select Send a message.
- A message pop-up window will appear.
- Type your message into the box and when finished, click Send message.
NOTE: If you check the Send email immediately...
- You’ll receive a green notification to confirm that the message was sent, click the (x) to remove it.
- Sent Messages and subsequent replies will now appear in your messages drawer.
Messaging options
Once you have started a message thread, there are a number of options to manage conversations in the message drawer.
- To view a message thread, click on it.
- You can write a reply message in the Write a message text box, then click the arrow icon to send.
- You can also include emojis in your message with the smiley face(emoji) icon. From the Emoji picker window, click on an emoji to select it. You can filter emojis by theme with the tabs along the top row, or use the search bar. Once an emoji is selected, you will see a larger preview and the text description of the emoji.
- With the ellipses icon (...) you can choose a number of actions:
- View user info: You can perform a few different options for the user depending on your role in the unit.
- Star conversion: Star a private message thread to make them easily accessible in the starred section.
- Block user: If you do not want this user to be able to contact you, and you would like to stop receiving their messages.
- Mute conversation: If you would like to stop receiving notifications for a message thread.
- Delete conversation: Remove a message thread from your messages drawer. Please note,
- You will receive a prompt to confirm you would like to delete the message thread.
- Click Delete to delete the message thread.
- Add to contacts: You can add a person to your contacts to send them messages directly from the message drawer. This can be useful for contacts you will contact frequently.
- You will receive a prompt to confirm you would like to add the user as a contact.
- The user will receive an Add to contact request. You will be added to each other's contact lists when the user accepts your request.