The Classlist stores information about faculty and students enrolled in your course. You may use the chekcklist to view online status for a student and send emails to your class. You will also use the classlist to set up groups in your course.

View participants in your class

There are potentially three tabs in your Classlist – Staff, Students and Groups. The groups tab will appear only if you have set up groups in your course site. Click each tab to view the participants who fall into that category. Participants with a green dot next to their names are currently online.

Email participants through the Classlist

You may choose to email individual users through the classlist, all users who fall within a particular category or tab (i.e. all students) or you may email everyone in the classlist.

To email one user:

1. Locate the user in the classlist.
2. Check the box beside the name or names of the individual
3. Click the mailbox icon at the top of the grades list
4. Compose the message.
5. Click send.

To email all users in one category:

1. Click on the tab that you wish to email.
2. Click the Email everyone on this tab link at the top of the page. The usernames will be automatically added to the email message.
3. Compose the message.
4. Click send.

To email all users in the course:

1. Find the tab that lists "All" participants in the classlist.  Check the box at the top of the classlist to select everyone. 
2. Click the mailbox icon.
3. Compose the message.
4. Click send.

Figure 1 - Email users through the Classlist

Add participants through the Classlist

Students who are registered through the Student Information System will be automatically added to your classlist but you may choose to add another instructor, a teaching assistant, or even another student to your course.

1. Select Add Participant.
2. Click any part of the name or username in the search field. Click Search.
3. Place a check next to the name of the user you wish to add.
4. Choose the proper role from the drop-down list.
5. Click Enroll Selected Users.

Note: You will not be able to remove an instructor from your course or change the role of any user so please choose with care. You may contact the HelpDesk if you need to change a role or remove another instructor.

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