Instructors can send messages to selected students from most class reports
and from the Gradebook. To select students, click on the numbered
icons next to the students' names. The icons will change from grey to yellow
to indicate which students are selected. By clicking on "All,"
instructors can select all students in the report. To deselect a student,
instructors click on the associated yellow icon (which turns the icon
back to grey).
After selecting the students, click on "Send Message to Selected
Students." This opens a message in the ALEKS Inbox; the
students' names will automatically appear in the "Bcc" field of the
email message. (Since "Bcc" is used, students who receive the message
will not know the names of other students to whom it was sent.) After
composing the message, the instructor can check the box next to "Mark
as urgent," if the message is urgent. When students receive a message marked as urgent,
they will see "URGENT Message" displayed above their ALEKS INBOX icon.
NOTE. Instructors can quickly select all the students from one number to another
by using the "Shift" key. For example, to select all the students from
1 to 4, they can do the following:
Click on number 1.
Hold down the "Shift" key while clicking on number 4.
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