Communicate with your students

In the previous steps you learned how to prepare and announce your course. 
Following your instructions your students will read your lessons, start working on class assignments following your schedule, and soon will have questions. 

1. To communicate with your students, log in to ClassLeader then select a course. The Control Panel will open. 
2. On the Control Panel, you will see an indexed table of the Lessons. To access the Lesson Screen, Click on one of the links labeled: Enter.. followed by the lesson number. At the Lesson screen, click on the Communicate link to access the Trainer-Learner Communication Screen. 

NOTE: On the Communicate screen, a table of students is provided on the right panel, with a color code showing who tried to contact you. This table lets you select any student by clicking on his/her name in the table. 
To navigate quickly, the screen also includes, on the left side, a drop-menu of all your lessons. 

3. The Trainer-Learner Communication screen displays on the right panel, the messages sent by your students, and on the left panel, a form to fill for new messages or to edit old messages: 

Example:
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Message-ID: (generated by ClassLeader) 
feedback-Title: (ex: Text of your feedback) 
etc.. 
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Note the drop-menu listing the names of all your students. To make a message for the current student, fill in the form and press CONFIRM. To make a message for a different student, select him/her from the list, fill in the from and press CONFIRM.

4. Your feedback will be saved and added to the 'Retrieve a Message' menu located to the left of the NOTES button. 

The next step, will be to show you how to access your students' assignments.