Communicating in Online Courses

Mail

WebCT Mail allows faculty and students to send private messages to one another. Mail works very similarly to the Bulletin Board tool, so much of the information provided in the previous section applies here. The primary difference with mail is that when you send a message, you must specify the intended recipient of the message.

Selecting Mail Recipients

1. Click the Compose message button.
   
2. To the right of the Send to field, click the Browse button. (This is at the top of the page, not the Browse button for file attachments at the bottom of the page.)
   
3. Click the name of the recipient to select it. NOTE: The instructor's name is always listed at the top. If you see the instructor's name somewhere else in the list, do not use this account since it is likely a guest account that is not checked routinely.
   
   
   
   Or, if you need to send the message to multiple recipients, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking each of the names.
   
   

Set Mail Forwarding

To receive e-mail notification that you have received a new WebCT mail message, modify the Message settings.

1. Go to the WebCT Mail page.
   
2. Click the Message settings button.
   
3. On the Message settings page, check the Forward option and enter a valid e-mail address—one that you check regularly.
   
   

With the mail forwarding option checked, whenever someone sends you an e-mail message in WebCT, a copy of the message will be sent to the e-mail address specified in Message settings. When you receive the message in your regular e-mail, you will not be able to reply to the message and send it back to the sender’s WebCT mailbox. To reply to the message, you should login to the WebCT course.