There are two main methods for communicating with your students
through eClass: ANNOUNCEMENTS and MESSAGES. The ANNOUNCEMENTS forum
is the RECOMMENDED PROCESS and is added by default to the top of each
course.
NEW IN SUMMER 2023: instructors can now als...
The recommended process for communicating with the students in your
eClass course is to use the ANNOUNCEMENTS forum, which is
automatically created in every eClass course. If you do not see this
in your course, please consult the article Missing the Cours...
The ANNOUNCEMENTS forum is the best, and recommended, tool to
communicate with your students in eClass. By default, all students
will receive email messages forwarded from the ANNOUNCEMENTS forum
every time you post to it. Using this tool also keeps a per...
When the lifecycle of a forum
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/146/13/adding-forums]
topic has reached its natural conclusion or if instructors wish to
prevent students from making any more posts in it, forum topic...
As an alternative to the standard Forum
[https://support.eclass.ualberta.ca/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/146/13/adding-forums]
activity on eClass, instructors may add an ANONYMOUS FORUM if they
want students to be able to post in forums without b...
This article outlines how to customize roles in your course to prevent
certain users from receiving the email messages normally sent by the
Announcements forum or block. The use case would be if you have any
administrative users who require access to cont...
The messaging tool in eClass offers features similar to a text-chat or
SMS messaging application. It is NOT THE RECOMMENDED MECHANISM for
instructors to communicate with all students in their class because
it is difficult to review the message history, ma...
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