Emailing Group Members in D2L Brightspace

Overview

This article explains how students and instructors can identify group members and email everyone in a group using D2L Brightspace. Groups are commonly used for discussions, projects, and collaborative activities, and D2L provides multiple ways to contact group members directly.

How-To

Email members of a specific group in D2L Brightspace.

There are two ways to email members of a specific Group in D2L Brightspace:

  • Through the Groups tool
  • From the Classlist

To email group members from the Groups tool:

  1. Click the Communication menu.
  2. Click Groups. You'll see a list of the groups you are a member of there.
  3. Click the number under the Members column to see a list of group members' names.
  4. Click the email icon under the Email column to send an email to all group members.

Click the number of members to show a pop up window with a lis tof group member names Click the email icon to open a pop up window and send an MavMail email to all group members

To email group members from the Classlist:

  1. Click the Communication menu.
  2. Click Classlist.
  3. Select Groups from the View by filter.
  4. Click Apply.
  5. Select your Group name from the drop down menu.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. Check the box in the upper left corner to select all group members from the list.
  8. Click the Email icon at the top of the list.

View by filter allows you to filter by group

Select the group from the menu and click apply to filter the classlist

Select all members of the group and click the email icon to send an email

Outcome

After completing these steps, an email will be sent to all members of the selected group using D2L Brightspace’s email tool.

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