KSU D2L Email | Student Portal

To be able to operate Kennesaw State University (KSU) D2L, it is important to know everything about D2L. Here, we have some information about D2L at KSU about email. So, if you are a part of KSU, make sure that you read it until the end.

How to Check Email From the My Home Page

In D2L Brightspace, you are allowed to email other students of faculty at Kennesaw State University (KSU). You can do that to one or more students and even the whole classlist by using Email tool.

When you log into your D2L Brightspace, You can check new email quickly from the Minibar. With it, you can see new email notifications and access email from all of your courses. Here are the steps for checking email from the My Home Page.

When you get an email in D2L Brightspace, there will be an alert through the Message Alerts icon. When you get an email, there will be a red circle beside the Message Alert icon.

From the My Home Page, you have to click the Message Alerts icon on the Minibar.

Then, you are able to click Email to be able to access your inbox.

It is important to note that in this inbox, you will see your email from all if your courses. If you want to see email from a specific course, or email to students in a specific course, you can access that course.

How to Send an Email to One Student or a Group of Students

If you want to send an email to your students, you need to navigate to your course and then compose and send an email through your Classlist.

In the D2L Brightspace, you can send an email to one or student or a group of students by following the steps below.

From the My Home Page, you have to click on the Course Launcher.

Then, you need to choose the Course which contains the student who will be receiving your email message.

In this step, you have to click on the Classlist.

Then, there will be a list of students in your class. The thing that you have to do is to click the Check Button to choose the student whom you want to message.

After that, click on the Email button.

You will see a window where you are able to compose your message. By default, student that you chose will appear in the BCC field.

If you have composed your message, then you need to click on the Send button.

How to Send an Email to Everyone in a Class

In D2L Brightspace, you are able to send an email to every person in a class by following the steps below.

From the My Home Page, you need to click on the Course Launcher.
Then, you have to choose the course that has the student(s) who will be getting your email message.
Next, click on the Classlist and then click the Email Classlist button.
You will see that a list of participants who will receive your email loads in the Email Classlist window. You must scroll down to the button of the page to click the Send Email button.
Here, there will be a window for composing your message. For your information, by default, students that you choose will appear in the BCC field.
If you have composed your message, then you must click the Send button.

How to Check for Email Messages

If you want to check email to see whether you have email messages from your students, you can do that by following the steps below.

The first thing that you have to do is to click on the Message Alerts icon from the My Home Page.

Then, you have to click on Email to access your inbox. If there are new emails in your inbox, there will be a preview of the sender and subject.

Now, your inbox will load and then any messages that you have received will appear in the inbox. You will see that the subjects of new messages are in bold.

In this stage, you have to click on the subject to be able to open an email.

How to Create Folder to Store Email Messages

If you want to create folders to be able to store email messages that you receive, you are able to follow the steps below.

First, in the inbox, you have to click the Folder Management button.

Then, you have to click on the New Folder.

Here, you have to enter a Folder Name and if you need, you can choose a Parent Folder for the folder to reside in. After that, don’t forget to click the Save button.

You will see that the folder appears in the Folder List.

If you want to go back to the Inbox, click on Inbox.

How to Move a Message from the Inbox to a Folder

You are able to store email messages in folders. If you want to move an email from your inbox to a folder, you are able to do that by following the steps below.

From the Inbox, you need to choose the message(s) that you want to move.
Then, you have to click on the Move To drop down arrow.
In the menu which appear, you have to click to choose the folder where you want to move the email.
Then, you will see that the message will be moved from your Inbox to the folder that you chose.

How to Move a Message from the Inbox to the Trash

You are able to move messages to the trash. By doing it, it can keep your inbox neat and clutter free. To move messages to the trash, you can follow the steps below.