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Course Email Lists

Instructors on Purdue's West Lafayette campus can request course email lists for each course taught during the semester. Course email lists provide a secure environment for instructors to facilitate communication with students in the class by only displaying the sender's email address and the course list name in the email. Students do not have access to other students' email addresses until a student sends an email to the entire email list, disclosing the information.

Course email lists are automatically populated with course data from the Registrar and changes are reflected within 24-48 hours of when students drop or add a course. Requests are processed on Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. All course email lists are automatically deleted at the end of each semester.

Getting Started
Anyone assigned as "instructor" or "course roster viewer" (as assigned in Banner) for a course AND who is FERPA certified may request a course email list for their course(s). The list will be created and populated with the course roster maintained by the Registar's office.

A Mailman list will be created within one business day of your request (Monday - Friday). Once the list has been created, you will receive an email showing the list name and address. Populating the email list with the course roster will take about 15 minutes after you receive the email notification.

Contact:
If you have technical problems with a course email list, please contact the ITaP Customer Service Center at 494-4000 or by sending email to itap@purdue.edu.