Email Classes in STAR
- Jessica Steele
- Cassandra Rinker
Once registration starts for a term, instructors can email a class or a selection of students using STAR.
View the Sending Course Messages and Email in eCampus article for more information about contacting students through eCampus.
How to send a class email through STAR:
Log into star.wvu.edu
Select the Faculty and Advisors tab
Select the Class List link
Select a specific term or use the Search box to select a course. By default, all courses for all terms will appear in the Course Selection area.
Click on the class you want from the CRN Listing options. This will populate the list of students in that specific class.
Email the entire class by clicking the 'Check all' box, and click the Email icon button.
Email specific students by selecting the check-boxes next to their name, and then click the Email icon button.
A window should open with an Outlook email draft. If you do not see this window pop-up check your Outlook settings. Your Primary Email address will be used by default, and cannot be changed within the Outlook prompt.
Unresponsive Link for Small Classes
You may find that the Email class link exists but clicking the link does nothing. This is because the decision between displaying Email Class and Display Email List is done by evaluating the number of enrolled students, not by character count.
The maximum number of characters in a mailto link is 2048. A class may only have 100 enrolled students; however, the total number of characters can exceed the 2048 limit if some of the students have long names. When this happens, web browsers will not properly evaluate the link.
If clicking the Email class link does nothing, try the following solution:
Follow these steps for your browser:
Chrome: Right-click the Email class link and choose Open in new tab/window. Click in the address bar and click Ctrl + A to copy the address.
Firefox: Right-click the Email class link and choose Copy Email Address.
Internet Explorer: Right-click the Email class link and choose Properties. Then double-click the information in the Address (URL) field and click Ctrl + C to copy the text.
Open a plain text editor, such as Notepad. Then click Ctrl + V to paste the text.
Erase mailto:?Bcc= from the beginning of the text, so that it is only showing email addresses.
Click Ctrl + A to copy the email addresses.
Open your email client (Gmail, Outlook, etc.) and start a new email. Click Ctrl + V in the BCC field of the email.
Note: It is important to BCC the students so that conversations will not be sent to every student in the class if one them responds to you.Compose your message and send the email.