Quick Links
The Quickmail is a block that provides emailing capability within Moodle courses.
It allows teachers to email students with the following functions:
- sending regular emails
- emails can have attachments
- keeping email history
- sending emails with student groups
- students can be allowed to use Quickmail too
Add a Block
- Click “Turn editing on” button on the course site.
- Select Quickmail from the Blocks dropdown menu in the lower left corner.
- Click “Turn Editing Off” button on the course site.
Compose New Email
- Click “Compose New Email” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Select recipients from the Potential Recipients, and click “Add”.
- Type in your Subject of the email and the email Message, attach a file in the
Attachment(s) section. - Click “Send email” button to send.
Setup Signatures
- Click “Signatures” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Input the Title of your Signature.
- Setup your Signature content and style.
- Click “Save changes“ button to send.
Review History
- Click “View History” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Click magnifying glass icon to review individual message.
(Note that this icon will get you back to the Compose email screen, which will be pre-filled with the original values from the old email. This is handy for resending an email to a particular user or for sending similar emails.) - You can delete a record by clicking the red x icon.
Allow Students to Send Emails
- Click “Configuration” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Change the Allow students to use Quickmail dropdown list to “Yes”.
- Click “Save changes” button.
Tips
- If you do now allow students to use Quickmail – they will not even see the block on the site homepage.
- Attachment behaves differently for Students and for Teachers.
- Students can select a file from their hard drive to attach to the email. This file is only temporarily stored on the server and it deleted after the email has been sent.
- Teachers use the standard course files interface. These files are stored in the course files and are never removed by Quickmail.
- Students can select a file from their hard drive to attach to the email. This file is only temporarily stored on the server and it deleted after the email has been sent.