On the Home page, is a Nugget (section) called Course Mail. Here you can:

View Inbox for all courses
Read unread messages for all courses
Send messages (Quick Message) to instructor or students for all courses.

You can also do all of these from within each individual course

To Send Mail:

1. On your Home page or from the Communication Tab from within your course. Click the Quick Message hyperlink. The Course Mail interface appears and displays the message composition window.
   
   
2. Click the To: button to open the Select Message Recipients dialog box.
3. Be sure that within the View Section, that the desired course or group is selected.
   
   
4. To select a recipient for your message, click his or her name in the left-hand pane of the dialog box, then click the To button to add the name to the list of recipients. (Click the Cc or Bcc button to “copy” or “blind copy” the message to the selected recipient.)
   
   Press and hold the Control key on your keyboard (or the Apple key on a Macintosh) to select multiple recipients. You may also send the message to students in other courses by selecting a different course from the View Section drop-down list.
   
   
5. Click OK to close the dialog box and return to the message window.
6. Click in the Subject field and enter a subject for your message.
7. Select a priority from the Priority drop-down list. By default, Normal is selected.
8. Click in the large text box and type your message. Alternatively, you can use the inline HTML Editor to format your message.
9. Click the Send button.
   
   Click the Attach files link if you want to add an attachment to your message. Select the Send a copy to each recipient’s Internet e-mail checkbox to send a duplicate message outside the ANGEL environment to the recipients' e-mail address. You can save a draft of your message by clicking the Save Draft button.

Read Email

1. On your Home page or from the Communication Tab from within your course. Click the View Inbox hyperlink. Your Course Mail Inbox appears on the screen.
   
   
2. Be sure that within the Filter, that the desired course or group is selected.
   
   
3. Click the hyperlinked name of the sender or the subject of a course mail message to display the full message. The course mail message appears on the screen.

 

NOTE:

New/Unread messages appear in bold. Once the message has been opened, it appears non-bold.

 

Messages with attachments display a paperclip icon located to the left of the message subject.

 

The message importance is displayed in the column marked by the red exclamation point.

 

To delete a message, select the checkbox located next to the message and click the Delete hyperlink. Deleted messages are moved to the Trash folder. To completely delete a message, you must delete the message from the Trash folder view.

 

To select all of the messages listed, select the checkbox on the Menu icon. You can then move the selected messages to another folder, delete selected messages, etc.

 

To move a message to another folder, select the checkbox located next to the message, select Send to Folder from the Actions drop-downlist and click Go. From the drop-down list select the desired folder from the Send to Folder pop-up list.

 

To view a different folder, select a folder from the System Folders or My Folders list located on the left side of the Course Mail.

 

Click the Preferences hyperlink to configure course mail preferences for viewing, signatures, editing and privacy.

Forward E-mail from ANGEL ( Faculty & Staff ONLY)

1. Log into ANGEL and click the Preferences icon on the left side of the Home page.   The Preferences panel appears.
   
   
2. Click System Settings in the General User Settings area. The System Settings Manager appears.
   
   
   
   
3. Locate the Mail Settings area, and type the full email address where you wish your ANGEL mail to be forwarded into the Forwarding Address field.
   
   
   
   
4. Use the drop-down list to select the Forwarding Mode of your choice Manager appears.
   
   
   
   
5. Click the Save button.
   
   
6. Click Personal Information in the General User Settings area.
   
   
   
   
7. Under Contact Settings, you will see a place for E-mail, be sure that the E-mail address within this field is the same address that you are using to forward out your ANGEL mail. If it is not, change it to the correct e-mail address and click save at the bottom of the screen.