Allow students to email 'All Teachers'

Idea created by Emily Kaye Baxter on Jan 11, 2016

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Canvas Conversations currently does not allow students to email 'All Teachers'. Instead, students must click on the name of each teacher they want to include in their message. This may work well in a classroom with one teacher, but there are many courses where there may be multiple professors and/or TAs whom students might need to contact. The process of finding and clicking all of the individual names can become very tedious. Additionally, at the collegiate level, there are often learning designers who help to provide technical support during the first semesters of an online course offering. Having an option for students to email 'all teachers' would allow others with administrative rights in a course (including learning designers) to monitor student emails and be able to better serve students' technical needs in a timely fashion.

jordan@instructure.com Feb 3, 2016 8:38 AM

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Peter Smith Mar 30, 2016 4:22 PM

But only if one can disable that as well. We usually don't want students emailing all the instructors (20+) in a course.

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Lea Engle

Apr 19, 2016 2:16 PM

This sounds like a great option for team-taught courses. I often had students email another instructor and assuming we all shared information. This way we'd all have a record.

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Renee Carney

May 4, 2016 3:20 PM

We appreciate you, and the submission of your idea. Your dialogue helps our product teams prioritize feature development. Unfortunately, this idea has been archived because it did not meet the 100-vote threshold within the 3-month voting period. Learn more at: How does the voting process work for feature ideas?

Can archived ideas still become a feature? Potentially, yes. Archived ideas can be resubmitted by Community members. As people’s needs change, previously submitted ideas may gain additional traction. Feature ideas are evaluated as a whole and influence product direction.

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Jessica Hendricks @ Renee Carney on Feb 21, 2017 9:19 AM

I was about to write a request for this very topic. How do I resubmit this for voting?

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Renee Carney

Feb 24, 2017 2:43 PM

This idea is one of the lucky ones that was selected to get a little more time for voting as part of our evolution of the feature idea process. It was selected because of it's vote count and/or comment thread.

*Selection criteria: Most (not all) ideas that received 70+ votes in their initial voting round.

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Alice Downing Apr 25, 2018 3:24 PM

In the Help Menu Link, I would like to have 'Ask my Teaching Team a Question" and have that email the Teachers, TAs and Course Admins." Our instructors are worried about being the only person on the team to be asked a question so we have needed to remove the link from our help menu.

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Aaron Bahmer Sep 16, 2019 2:46 PM

I'm also interested in students being able to message all teachers across all courses within the term. Consider a college student wanting to notify all her instructors that she is ill and will not be in class. Having a way to send a single message to all of them (pick "All teachers this term") without having to pick them from each of the courses (pick course, pick teacher) would make life much easier.

Yes, I agree that institutional admin should have the ability to allow this behavior or not.

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jordan@instructure.com Feb 3, 2016 8:38 AM
This idea has moved to the next stage and will be open for voting among the Canvas Community, from Wed. February 3, 2016 - Wed. May 4, 2016.

Check out this doc for additional details about how the voting process works!
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Peter Smith Mar 30, 2016 4:22 PM
But only if one can disable that as well. We usually don't want students emailing all the instructors (20+) in a course.
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Lea Engle Apr 19, 2016 2:16 PM
This sounds like a great option for team-taught courses. I often had students email another instructor and assuming we all shared information. This way we'd all have a record.
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Renee Carney May 4, 2016 3:20 PM
We appreciate you, and the submission of your idea. Your dialogue helps our product teams prioritize feature development. Unfortunately, this idea has been archived because it did not meet the 100-vote threshold within the 3-month voting period. Learn more at: How does the voting process work for feature ideas?

Can archived ideas still become a feature? Potentially, yes. Archived ideas can be resubmitted by Community members. As people’s needs change, previously submitted ideas may gain additional traction. Feature ideas are evaluated as a whole and influence product direction.
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- Jessica Hendricks @ Renee Carney on Feb 21, 2017 9:19 AM
  I was about to write a request for this very topic. How do I resubmit this for voting?
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Renee Carney Feb 24, 2017 2:43 PM
This idea is one of the lucky ones that was selected to get a little more time for voting as part of our evolution of the feature idea process. It was selected because of it's vote count and/or comment thread.

*Selection criteria: Most (not all) ideas that received 70+ votes in their initial voting round.
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Alice Downing Apr 25, 2018 3:24 PM
In the Help Menu Link, I would like to have 'Ask my Teaching Team a Question" and have that email the Teachers, TAs and Course Admins." Our instructors are worried about being the only person on the team to be asked a question so we have needed to remove the link from our help menu.
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Aaron Bahmer Sep 16, 2019 2:46 PM
I'm also interested in students being able to message all teachers across all courses within the term. Consider a college student wanting to notify all her instructors that she is ill and will not be in class. Having a way to send a single message to all of them (pick "All teachers this term") without having to pick them from each of the courses (pick course, pick teacher) would make life much easier.

Yes, I agree that institutional admin should have the ability to allow this behavior or not.
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