Communicating with Your Students in Moodle
Communicating with Studentsstudents is easy with Moodle 4,Moodle, and you have several options depending upon your needs.
Option 1Options
News & Announcements
First, the quickest way to communicate with your students is by posting a message in the News & Announcements forum. This forum is located near the top of the Moodle semester course template so it exists in every course.
AnythingAny messages you post herein this forum type will remain thereavailable in the forum throughout the semester as an archive,archive butfor the class, and will also be sent to the studentsindividual email.student emails.
OptionDiscussion 2Forums
Notifications
Another tool you might try is the MessagingNotifications tool in the located in the upper right corner of the page:page to the left of your Moodle account icon image:
The messagingNotifications tool is connected with your Moodle account, rather than a course. Here you can send a message that will show as a notification andwhich can also be set to send to email. This area is customizable forby you.you Youand canby searchyour students so if you would like students to set specific notifications for studentsyour byclass, name,consider addmaking an assignment that has them toadjust yourtheir contactsnotification and/or create groups as needed.preferences.
