From the course: Moodle 2.4 Essential Training

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Setting up messaging

Setting up messaging

Moodle has a built in messaging system, which if your administrator has enabled it, can be very useful for communicating with students and other colleagues. In this video, we'll look at how to make it easy, to send and receive messages. So, we're in the course with the editing turned on, which we've done either by clicking the button, top right or from the link in the settings block, turn editing on, and then we're going to scroll down and add the messages block. From the drop down add a block, we choose the option messages, and this then, presents us with an easy way of seeing and accessing messages. And you see that, I've already been sent a message, and I can click on it, to access it there. And if I click the link messages, that takes me to the place where I can search for contacts, to message them. So, if I click the name of the person who sent me a message, that presents me with a message and I can reply to her and I click the button, Send Message. And then if I want to search…

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