Participants Page / Messaging Students
Margarita Berezyanskaya
Last Update 25 dage siden
The Participants link in the Course navigation menu opens a dashboard that displays instructor and student information and a set of functionalities to improve communication and organization in a course.
Note: The Participants page offers sorting options for quickly locating or ordering students in a list and accessing information about each student. Instructors and students can use it to send messages and emails to selected course participants. The following image is a sample Participants page student view.
Note: This is the instructor's view of the Participants page with editing features active.
Accessing the Participants Page
Note: You do not have to click on the Edit mode toggle button in the upper right corner of the screen to activate the editing tools. The Editing features appear on the course screen by default.
1. In the Course navigation menu, click on the Participants link.
Note: The Participants page appears with editing features active.
Showing and Hiding Participant Information
Note: The participant list can be made less crowded by hiding some of the fields using Hide and Show icons.
1. To hide a field in the participants list, click on the Hide icon (minus sign) under the field title. In this example, it is Email address.
Note: The Email address field or column is now hidden and a Show icon (plus sign) appears in its place.
2. To show the Email address field, click on the Show icon.
Sorting People in a Course
Note: The participants list in the images above is sorted by First name. This is indicated by the upward pointing arrow near First name. The course participants' order is ascending (A to Z) in this image.
1. To change the list order, click on First name.
2. The people are now in descending order (Z to A). The downward arrowhead indicates this.
3. When you click on Last access to course, the list is sorted in descending order, starting with the person who most recently accessed the course.
Note: Participants can be reordered by First name, Last name, Email address and Last access to course.
Sending Course Messages to Course Participants
1. On the Participants page, select the recipient(s) of the messages.
2. Select Send a message in the With selected users... drop-down menu.
3. Write your message.
4. Click the Send message button.
Note: The message is sent and if students have their Messages settings set up to Notification preferences, Email, On, they will receive the message by email when they are offline.
5. Receivers of the message need to click on their Message Drawer icon.
6. Then they click on the Message preview in the Message Drawer.
7. The full message appears.
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