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No e-mail recipients are listed for this course

No e-mail recipients are listed for this course

by David Royster -
Number of replies: 1

I am sure this is a simple fix, but I cannot find it in the docs.

I am the course coordinator for our course being hosted by MAA servers. I have the course set up but when a student clicks on the "Email instructor" button we get the message "No e-mail recipients are listed for this course".

I must be missing something in the course.conf.

I need mail to be sorted by section so I have added the line $feedback_by_section = 1;

to the course.conf.

Is there something else I am supposed to do to get this to work?

Thanks

droyster

In reply to David Royster

Re: No e-mail recipients are listed for this course

by Arnold Pizer -
Hi,

When you say "I need mail to be sorted by section" I'm not quite sure what you mean.  

If you want Prof's and TA's to only see emails from their own sections, you have to, on the classlist page, fill in the section for all Prof's and TA's so that their section matches the section for their students. Since in your case, these fields are empty for all Prof's and TA's, and you have set  $feedback_by_section = 1, there is no one to receive email.

If you just want to sort email, by default the sections and recitations are listed in the subject line of the email so it is easy to filter email if that is what you want. Some people set up gmail accounts for their sections and handle email that way. I believe there was a discussion on that on the forums awhile ago but right now I can't find that.  Maybe someone else knows where it is.


Arnie