Announcements – Email a copy of an announcement to your Classlist | New
In response to multiple Product Idea Exchange (PIE) submissions, when Instructors create a new announcement in a Course Offering, they can now choose to send a copy to all users in their Classlist as an email, sent as if from the instructor themselves.
In the user interface for creating or editing an announcement, a new Send Email Copy checkbox now appears when an instructor creates or edits an announcement.
This feature implements the following Product Idea Exchange (PIE) items:
· D1923 (Email Notification Option when Creating New News Items)
· D3817 (Default email notification when publishing a news item)
When an instructor selects the new checkbox, the system emails the content of the announcement to all users in the Classlist on publishing.
Users who are not subscribed to receive a notification for announcements will also receive an email, ensuring that important information contained within the announcement is delivered to every learner.
For consistency with automated emails in Intelligent Agents and assignment submissions, the system sends the message to internal email addresses if users have them. If users do not have internal email addresses, the system sends it to their external email address.
Users without a valid email address will not receive an emailed copy of the announcement.
For announcements scheduled to publish at a later date, clicking the Send Email Copy checkbox emails the copy to users in the Classlist at the time that the announcement is published.