Sending Emails in Brightspace

Use this page to learn how to email your instructor/professor and classmates in Brightspace.

There are several things to keep in mind when sending emails from Brightspace:

When emailing multiple class members, D2L adds the email addresses in the BCC field. Keep them there so that individual users are identified when sharing sensitive information.
Emails are hard limited in message size and cannot exceed 20MB.
To send a large file, it is recommended to upload it to your student Google Drive and share it with your recipients.
Please keep the Code of Student Conduct in mind when communicating with others at Purdue Global.

Emailing from the Brightspace Classlist

Navigate to the Brightspace course that you wish to send an email from.
Select More Tools and then Classlist.
From the Classlist, you can search for the user by utilizing the search function or scrolling through the list of users.
1. A single user can be emailed by clicking on their name.
2. Multiple users can be emailed by selecting the checkbox next to their names and then clicking email at the top of the Classlist.
  - The users will automatically be added in the Bcc field.
A window will open, allowing you to compose a new email.
From here, you can modify the recipient list and subject, add an attachment, and compose your message.
Select Send to send your message.

Navigate to the Brightspace course that you wish to send an email from.
Select More Tools and then Classlist.
From the Classlist, the instructor can be emailed by clicking on their name. An Instructor can be identified by looking for Instructor under the Role column.
A window will open, allowing you to compose a new email.
From here, you can modify the recipient list and subject, add an attachment, and compose your message.
Select Send to send your message.

Navigate to the Brightspace course that you wish to send an email from.
Select More Tools, and then Groups.
Next to the group you wish to email, click on the email icon.
A window will open, allowing you to compose a new email.
From here, you can modify the recipient list and subject, add an attachment, and compose your message.
- The other members of the group will automatically be added in the Bcc field.
Select Send to send your message.

The Email icon allows students to send an email to any of their classmates or to their instructor.

Click the envelope icon to expand a box.
Click on Email to open the Compose New Message pane.
Add an email address in the To field.
Including email addresses in CC and BCC is optional.
The Subject field will be pre-populated with the course code and course name; however, this field can be edited.
Add your message in the body of the email (which has formatting tools available).
The Send button is blue and at the top left.

A copy of each email will automatically be sent to your inbox and will be available in Sent Mail in your course.