It seems that even though I am only looking at a section within the gradebook, if I want to use the "Email student who.." tool just for that section, I cannot - it brings up all the students who meet the criteria in the course.
Can anyone confirm this is the case or how do I set it up so that it will not do this?
Yes that's what I do too... perhaps I'll put it up as an improvement.... or it is a bug fix?
I think they would want it as a feature request. It's not technically a bug fix since it's not documented that it honors the filter by section. Here are links to the pages in the guides. They specifically mention filtering on assignment category but not other things.
Note that most of the new development is going into the "New Gradebook" so it may not happen with the legacy gradebook.
That makes sense. I'd certainly be happy if it went into the new gradebook. thanks!
Have created the idea here: Make "Email students who..." section specific
For Brooke Walters and anyone else running across this conversation, we'd like to direct you to the idea currently in Radar Status and open for voting: "Message students who..." feature should filter by Section when selected.
Brooke,
This is what I am experiencing as well. The only option I am aware of is to click the X to remove the students you do not want to send the message to.