Group Email

Refer to ticket #52

Requirements

The instructor (or admin) should be able to send a group email

A group can be:

• Students registered in a course
• Group members in a group
• Each student

Optional:

• User can use and edit his/her own email template
• Email merge system, so template can have fields for variables
• Ownership such as private, public, or shared among some group

Implementation

Layout

Email button will be placed on:

• Course Home page for emailing to all students registered in a course
• Group View page for emailing to group members in a group
• Next to each student name on Group View page for emailing to a student

Table

• Ownership field could be tinyint(1)

Alternative Plan

--- this could be an option, as well as offering sending email system ---

iPeer's sending email function may lack some features such as draft, text-formatting, or attachment.

Allowing a user to see and copy group email addresses would be a good alternative solution.

For example:

• Click "Get email list"
• Pop-up window shows email addresses of group (e.g. abc@…; def@… ...
• Click "Copy" from the window and get email addresses.
• Use email client that user prefers