VIU Campus

Email

Students and employees can send email to people they share a course with from the VIULearn classlist. By default, email received in VIULearn is forwarded to that person's VIU email address.  You can edit your forwarding settings in VIULearn to change your forwarding options. When changing setting, please keep in mind that emails may contain sensitive and personally identifying student information and should not be forwarded to a personal email address. 

Access the Email tool

  1. Click on the envelope icon in the minibar
  2. Select Email from the dropdown menu.
  3. The Email tool will open.

From this screen, you can see a list of the most recent emails you have received, read emails, compose new emails and replies, and manage your emails and folders.

Please note that the email tool is an "umbrella tool": even when you access it from a specific course you will see all of your emails from all of your courses.

Email your entire classlist:

  1. From the course navigation bar, choose Communications and then Classlist.
  2. Click the grey Email Classlist button at the top of the page.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the list that appears and choose the blue Send Email button.
  4. The email composition screen will open. Once you are ready, click the Send button to send out your email, or click Save as Draft to save and finish your email at a later time.

Email specific students:

  1. From the course navigation bar, choose Communications and Classlist.
  2. Use the boxes to the right of the students' names to select them.
    Please Note: If you have 2 or more pages to your classlist, adjust the students per page so that you can see the entire list. Otherwise, you will lose your selections whenever you change pages.
  3. Once you have selected the student(s) you want to email, click on the Email icon at the top of the classlist page.

The Email editing screen

When you select student emails from the classlist, they are automatically added to the BCC box.  You don't need to list anyone in the To box for the email to send. Emails in the BCC box will be hidden from recipients. 

You can add an email subject, information in the text box (which has the same editing capabilities as the other text boxes in VIULearn) and attach files to the email. When you are done you can either choose Send or Save as Draft at the top of the page.