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...