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Email Your Students in the Faculty Center

Last modified 11/20/2024

Faculty Center is part of Campus Solutions at Illinois State University. Faculty Center is the “one-stop-shop” for many of the tools you use as an instructor.

As an instructor, you can use Faculty Center to email students in the classes you teach.

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Email Students in Faculty Center


Instructors may email students in the Faculty Center using the following methods:

To email an individual student:

  1. Navigate to the Class Roster for the class you would like to email students.
  2. Click on the student’s name.
  3. A new, blank email message will appear with the student’s email address in the To: field.
  4. Compose and send your email as usual.

To email multiple students in a class:

  1. Navigate to the Class Roster for the class from which you would like to email students.
  2. Check next to the students you wish to email.
  3. Click the Notify Selected Students button.
  4. (Optional) Fill the Subject and Message Text fields.
  5. Click the Send Notification button.
  6. Click Return to Class Roster to return to your Class Roster.

To email all of the students in your class:

  1. Navigate to the Class Roster for the class from which you would like to email students.
  2. Click the Notify All Students button.
  3. (Optional) Fill the Subject and Message Text fields.
  4. Click the Send Notification button.
  5. Click Return to Class Roster to return to your Class Roster.

Additional Resources

How to Get Help

Technical assistance is available through the Illinois State University Technology Support Center at:

For how-to questions about Faculty Center, contact the Office of the University Registrar:

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