Sending messages

Searching for students

If you wish to find a group of contacts who have a particular history of interactions with your college, onCourse will allow you to perform advanced search functions, then use the combined email, sms and mail messaging tool to contact these clients.

For example, you can search for all students who enrolled in a course containing the word “french” in the last 365 days and then send them all an invitation to enrol in your new class, Provence Study Tour, prior to it’s public release.

After you’ve selected your contacts or classes that you wish send messages to you should see the send message dialog.
Using this dialog you can choose to send:

• email
• sms
• both email and sms

Sending emails

In order to send email you need to have the “Send Email” box ticked.

You can send out multipart emails out with a text/plain part and/or text/html part. This means you have to fill in at least one of the “Plain” tab or in the “HTML” tab.

In “HTML” tab there is a field for copying html code and another field for specifying a web url which content is downloaded. There is a limit to emails of 32000 characters. That means only small websites can be used.
See this page for HTML formatting information for various mail clients.

Sending out SMS

“Send SMS” must be ticked, if you are already sending them an email, you can choose to have them also receive the sms by ticking
“including people who are emailed”