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Send Email to Students with Quickmail

About Quickmail

Quickmail allows instructors to send email to a select number of students or the whole class through their LATTE course.

Quickmail is a limited tool:

  • No record of of the outgoing email is kept within LATTE
  • No record of  student replies are kept within LATTE
  • Replies and continued correspondence occurs via students' and instructors' Brandeis email accounts outside LATTE

Other options for communicating with students electronically are:

  • A course mailing list (requested by logging into MyCourses)
  • News and Announcement Forum in LATTE (sends email annoucements to all subscribed students)
  • Messaging using the Message tool (instructor must add Message block to course)

Learn more about LATTE's options to communicate with your students here.

Adding Quickmail for Your Course

You will need to add the Quickmail block to your course homepage before you can use Quickmail.

To add the Quickmail block:

Step 1: On your course homepage, click the "Turn editing on..." button. A block named Blocks will appear with a drop down menu.

Step 2:  From the drop-down menu in the Blocks block, select "Quickmail." The Quickmail block will then appear on the right-hand side of your course outline.

Composing an Email in Quickmail

Step 1: In the Quickmail block on the right-hand side of your course homepage, click on the "Compose" link in the block. (It will have an icon next to it that looks like this: email icon )

Step 2: In the page that appears with the course participants names, check the boxes for each person you want to send an email. 

Step 3: Type a subject for your email and type the text of your email in the large box below the subject box. If you wish to add an attachment, see Adding Attachments below. If not, go on to Step 4. 

Step 4: Click the "Send email" button at the bottom of the page.


Adding Attachments 

Step 1: Click on the "Choose or upload a file" button.

Step 2: In the new window, click "Upload a file." Now click "Browse," select the file you want to attach, and click "Upload." 

Step 3: The file you uploaded will appear in your files directory window. Click the "Choose" link to the right of the file name (you may have to scroll to the right to find it). Your file will now be attached to the email. Return to Step 4 in the instructions above.