The Message Center allows you to contact your students and provide feedback regarding their progress. You may also respond to questions from your students.
 
The page shown above is the front page for the Message Center. Here you are presented with a list of messages from your students.
 
This page provides the options:

• Viewing the messages.
• Reply to a message with a response.
• You may also send new messages to groups or students.

To view your messages, go to the Message Center. At the Message Center you will notice that each class has its own Inbox and Sent links. Click on the Inbox of the class whose messages you would like to view.

Click on either the subject of the message or the name of the student who sent it in order to view the entire email.

If you wish to reply to this message, click the Reply link at the top of the email.

Follow these steps to reply to a message:

• Enter the subject of your response in the Subject field. This field will automatically be filled with "RE: Previous Topic".

 
• Enter your message in the text area labeled Message.

 
• Click the Send link at the top of the page.

Follow these steps to send a message to a group:

• To send a message to the group, click the Compose button.Click the link to send mail to a student group, as shown in the image below. Note: You must be in a class that is assigned a group project, or you will only be able to send to individual students.

 

• Select the group name from the drop-down menu.
   
• Enter the subject of your message in the Subject field. Try to keep the subject short and to the point.  
  


• Enter your message in the text area labeled Message. Your message may not exceed 2,000 characters. 

 
• Click the Send link at the top of the page. 

Follow these steps to send a message to groups:

• To send a message to an individual student, click the Compose button.
   
• Select the student's username from the drop-down menu.
  
  

• Enter the subject of your message in the Subject field. Try to keep the subject short and to the point. 
  
• Enter your message in the text area labeled Message. Your message may not exceed 2,000 characters. 
   
• Click the Send link at the top of the page. 

To view messages that you have sent in the past, click on either the Sent link on the Message Center page or the View Sent if you are already viewing messages in your inbox. This feature allows you to keep track of which emails have been sent to groups and students in the past.

Whether you are looking at your inbox or sent items, you may delete the message by clicking the box in front of the email listings so that a checkmark appears. Once you have checked all the emails that you no longer wish to keep, click the Delete link.