Brightspace contains an email tool which allows instructors to reach out to their students from the platform itself. This is used most predominantly from the Classlist area.
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Announcements?
Brightspace does have an Announcements tool, which is a separate entity from the Email function. Announcements allow instructors to create posts on their Brightspace course homepage that are also sent out as emails to students by default. However, students are able to turn off email notifications for Announcements, which means they are not 100% reliable in terms of making sure an email shows up in a student’s inbox.
Learn more about Announcements
Students can’t email each other, but they can IM, here’s a link to IM or whatever
Emailing from Classlist (by sections or groups)
Students can reply, but it comes from an ugly address (it turns into the instructor’s email during a response)
Does an email sent in BS show up in the sent folder in Outlook?
Changing your email and the email settings