EdtechGuides: Moodle Forum and communications guide: Communication settings and activities

Review email notifications

The majority of Moodle's communication activities can generate a notification to your university email address. Remember to review your email regularly. You can review the Email Guide for further guidance.

Email Guide

Communication settings and activties

Forums provide an area where students and teachers can communicate by posting comments on a discussion.

Forum Subscriptions: Subscription to a forum means that you will receive any posts made to a Moodle forum as an email as well as being able to view it on Moodle. This is useful for keeping up to date with posts. Staff may subscribe you to forums to send out important messages about your course or to include you in module activities. To help manage your forum posts there are a few settings within Forum preferences that you can review.

Select the Profile from the top-right of the page and choose Preferences.
Select Forum preferences
Email Digest Type: If set to No digest you will receive an email to your university email each time a post is sent from the forums you are subscribed to. Select the Complete or Daily option if you would prefer these posts to be collated into one email at the end of each day.
Forum auto-subscribe: If you do not want to be automatically subscribed to a forum after you have posted to one, then select No.
Use experimental nested discussion view: Switch to a streamlined view of Forums by enabling Use experimental nested discussion view.
Forum tracking: We recommend setting your forum tracking to Yes: Highlight new posts for me. This will mean it is clearer when you access your module that you have new forum posts.
Select Save changes.

The message preferences setting lets you decide how to receive all communications from Moodle (including items like forums posts and messages).

To configure your message notification settings, select your profile icon at the top-right of the page and choose Preferences.
On the next page select Message preferences.
This brings up a screen with check boxes and sliders where you can configure your message preferences

Privacy preferences

Choose who can contact you.

Notification preferences.

Email: Message notifications will be sent to your university email.

General Preferences

The General preference allows you to use Enter on your keyboard to send messages, rather than selecting the send icon to send a message from Moodle.

Messages are an instant messaging option in Moodle.

Please note that this method is not as easily accessible for your lecturers as the other communication methods, so please only use the messaging option if your Lecturer has asked you to.

To access your messages, select the message icon at the top-right of the page next to your profile picture.

This opens the messaging side panel.

Find other Moodle users by typing their name in the search box.

Select the relevant user.

Write your message in the message input field and select the send icon.

Open the three dots menu on the chat box to review the options to block a user and star, mute or delete a conversation. Messaging menu

Select messages in the messages panel to read and reply, or select See all to open messaging in a full page. Message centre

Your messages will be displayed on the left. Select the contacts tab and type a user's name into the search box to locate and message them.

Quickmail allows lecturers and course officers to email students individually or as a group through Moodle. However, as a student, you will receive these emails to your university email account.

The Activity Feed block is only available in Moodle 3.9

The Activity Feed block lists recent course activity, such as updated resources and activities, forum posts and assignment submissions, since the user last accessed the course. It displays on your My Moodle page and displays as Module updates within modules. Select Visit in an item to go straight to that activity within its module or select Remove to tidy up your feed.