Messaging
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"Messaging" refers both to automatic alerts from Moodle about new forum posts, assignment submission notifications etc, and also to conversations using the instant messaging feature.
Message alerts
- Users can receive message alerts from Moodle in a number of ways and for a number of reasons: users may for instance receive instant messages via the Messages block; students may be messaged by their course tutor via the People block; teachers might receive automatic notifications of assignment submissions and admins might receive notification of problems with the site.
- How these messages and others are received can be set by each user from the Messaging link on their Preferences page. Check boxes allow the user to select how they wish to be notified of incoming messages. See Messaging settings for more information.
Instant messaging
If enabled for the site, users in Moodle have the option to send each other messages. Messages can be sent from the following places:
- as admin in Bulk user actions
- within a course from Navigation>Current course>Participants
- as any logged in user from the Messages block or Online Users block
- as any logged in user by clicking on the profile of another user (if admin has allowed profiles to be viewed)
See Using Messaging for more details.
To set how you receive instant messages, see Messaging settings.
When you click to send an instant message, a box will now pop up allowing you to type your message while remaining on the current page. Once you have sent the message, you can continue working from where you were previously.
