Quickmail is a block that provides emailing capability within Moodle courses.
It allows teachers to email students with the following functions:
- sending regular emails
- sending emails with attachments
- retaining email history
- sending emails with student groups
- allowing students to use Quickmail too
Add a Block
- Switch on “Edit Mode” on the top right corner of the course site.
- Select Quickmail from “Add a block” dropdown menu in the lower right corner.
- Switch off the “Edit Mode” button on the course site.
Compose New Email
- Click “Compose Course Message” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Select recipients from the dropdown list at To recipients, and click the intended names/groups.
- Type in your Subject of the email and the email Body, and attach a file in the
Attached files section. - Click “Send Message” button to send.
Setup Signatures
- Click “My Signatures” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Input the Title of your Signature.
- Setup your Signature content and style.
- Click “Save“ button to save.
Review History
- Click “View Sent Messages” link inside the Quickmail block.
- Click “View” button next to each message to review individual message details.
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 preferences” button.
Tips
- If you do now allow students to use Quickmail – they will not be able to 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 will be deleted after the email has been sent.
- Teachers use the standard course files interface. These files are stored in the course files and will never be removed by Quickmail.