Student - Instructions for Sending and Receiving Messages in Moodle 3.0 (June20 16) PDF

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Instructions for Sending and Receiving Messages in Moodle Sending private messages to individuals in your class If you would like to send a message to an individual in your class without sending it to the entire class by posting it to a forum, please proceed as follows: Step 1: Click on Participants located on the main course screen, under People

Step 2: Locate the name of the person to whom you would like to send a message. Click on their name.

Step 3: Click on the Message button.

Step 4: Compose your message in the text box and click on the Send message button.

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Retrieving messages sent to you individually In order to view messages that were sent to you individually, please proceed as follows. Step 1: When you log in to your Moodle course, if you have a new message, there will be a grey pop up box on the bottom, right corner of your screen. Click Go to messages to read the message. Click Ignore if you do not want to read the message.

Step 2: The name of the individual(s) that sent you a message will appear in a list under Incoming contacts. Click on the name of the individual in order to read their message and reply.

Step 3: Once you click on their name, you can see their message. You can also choose to add them as a contact by clicking on Add contact (1), underneath their name. It is recommended that you add people as contacts that you communicate with often as this will make it easier to see your message history with them. If there was a previous thread, click All messages or Recent messages (2) to see the whole conversation. Type your reply into the Message box (3) and click Send message (4).

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Step 4: To delete a private message, place your cursor over the message. It will become highlighted and an X will appear in the top, right corner. Click on the X to delete the message.

Step 5: If in the future, you would like to review an exchange of old messages, or if you did not see the grey pop up window, you can view your messages by clicking on Messages in the messages block.

Step 6: You can now look for old messages. Individuals that you have chosen to be a contact will appear automatically under contacts. Click on the name to see your old messages.

Step 7: If you want to locate message history with someone who is not a contact, you have two options. The first option is to use the Message navigation drop-down to view Recent conversations. Recent conversation will bring up all your recent message exchanges, where you can then locate the one you are looking for.

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Step 8: The second option is to locate the individual by using the search tool. To the right of your contact list, click Advanced next to the Search people and messages button.

Step 9: Type the name of the individual into the Name field or a keyword into the Keyword field. Be sure to check the Only in my courses box, to limit the search to only members of the course. Then click, Search for a person or Search messages.

Step 10: Click on the exchanges with them.

Message history icon next to a person’s name, to see all previous message

Note: You can also follow the above steps (Step 8-9) to add a person as a contact. Search for an individual and then click on the

Add icon to add them as a contact.

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