Pros

Cons

• Message gets emailed out to ALL staff and students enrolled on course
• You can decide whether email goes out immediately or 30 minutes after initial posting
• Easy to embed images and video into announcement
• Message can be pushed via the forum and an email, under Recent updates and in the Recent News block
• You can create different types of forum and decide it will be be forced subscription, auto-subscription, no subscription, or optional subscription
• it is easy to create a simple announcement (How?)
• Links to external URLs (for video, websites, pdfs on websites) are accessible via the email sent out

• any internal Moodle URLs, embedded images or video or uploaded files are NOT accessible via the email (recipient is forced to log into Moodle to access all content)
• email received does NOT identify sender or course (only course id is displayed followed by section > activity etc)
• If an auto-subscription forum etc recipient can only change preferences while logged into moodle
• We cannot stop students replying to forced subscription forum announcements
• What constitutes a message relevant to all staff and students?
• Email only goes once so if update a post no additional email is sent
• Staff and students can elect not to receive forum emails
• If students forward UAL emails to own emails , message can get lost in spam
• Can only add one document (unless use hyperlinking in message content)

Pros

Cons

• Quickmail emails can be sent to all students and / or all staff, all groups or selected groups of users (See How to use Quickmail andUnderstanding the Course Hierarchy)
• Moodle keeps a record of what you sent, to whom and when (Quickmail history) – so have record even if students say did not receive it
• You can save draft emails until ready to send (Quickmail drafts)
• Email is sent from you (and replies go back to you)
• You can resend an email from history if necessary
• Links to external URLs (for video, websites, pdfs on websites) are accessible via the email sent out

• Email is from you – no mention of whcih moodle course it may relate to
• An attachment is accessible in the email
• Only external URLs will open in the email
• If students forward UAL emails to own emails , message can get lost in spam
• Can only add one document (unless use hyperlinking in message content)