3 Communication Tools
The Email tool allows you to send emails from within Avenue to Learn. You can also organize received mail using folders and store email addresses using the Address Book.
Select the Message alerts icon from the navbar, and then select Email.
Instant Messaging
The Instant Messaging tool can be accessed from your course homepage.
At the top of the homepage, select the Message Alerts icon (shaped like an envelope). Two options will appear: Instant Messages and Email. Select Instant Messages to begin using the Instant Messaging tool.
A new window will open where you can write and read Instant Messages.
The first tab at the top of the window is the Inbox. Here, you can view all your current Read and Unread messages. Below the Inbox tab, you can select view preferences from the View option. You can choose to show your Inbox with:
- All your messages.
- Only your read messages.
- Only your unread messages.
After selecting a View preference, you can also choose how many messages appear per page of your Inbox. At the far right of the Inbox, select page view quantities at 10, 20, 50, 100, or 200 messages per page of your Inbox.
Messages can be mass selected to be set as read with the Set Read option and mass selected to be set as unread with the Set Unread option. Messages can also be mass deleted with the Delete option.
At the top of the window, the Friends tab acts as a personalized Instant Message section. To add friends, select the Add Friends dropdown at the far right of the window. Here, you can add friends in two ways: Search Users and Add by Username.
Search Users
To search for users:
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- Select Search Users.
- Click the Add as Friend option below the search bar to add them to your Friends list.
Add by Username
To add by user name:
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- Select Add by Username.
- A pop-up appears where you can directly write a username.
- After writing the username, select Add to include the user in your Friends list.
The Friends portion of your Inbox also allows you to remove friends from your list. To remove friends, select a user and then select Remove above the Inbox.
The third tab for Instant Messages is Classlist. By selecting this tab, you can view your Classlist for your courses, displaying all users. If you have more than one course, select the View option to switch between Classlists for different courses.
You can mass message users from the Classlist by selecting users and choosing the Message option above the Inbox. Individual messages can be sent by selecting one user.
The Settings option in the top right corner of the window allows you to select Filtering and Sorting options for the different Instant Messaging tabs.
- The Friends List Filter toggles to display friends who are Online, Offline, or display All friends regardless of availability.
- Inbox filters messages with Sort by sent date, Sort by last name, and Sort by first name.
- Friends filters messages with Sort by last name and Sort by first name.
- Classlist