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Send a General Email Message

1. Click on the Communications tab
2. Select Create a message
3. Ensure only Email is selected
   (Text might be selected as default if this is the default option set in Communications - System Options)
4. If you don't wish to send the email straight away, select Schedule message and select the required date and time
5. Click on the address book to select the Recipients
1. Using the appropriate tabs, select the individual recipients
2. or select via Classes, Year Groups, Cohorts, Staff as required
3. Select Include leavers, if required
6. Click Done
7. Enter a Subject
8. Type the Message text
9. The Email message can be formatted using the Bold, Italics, Underline, Alignment, Bullet points or Font size
10. Use the Insert hyperlink button to insert links to web pages such as www.scopay.com
11. Click on the paperclip to attach a document. A warning will be displayed if the file you are attaching is too large. 
    For good practice we recommend the following:
1. Save any attachments in pdf format
2. Reduce the file size by reformatting any large photos or other images
3. As a guide, try to keep the file size less than 2MB
4. Attach up to a maximum of 5 files
5. Ensure the total of all attachments are not greater than 20Mb, otherwise they will fail to send
12. Email contact priorities is set to Priority 1 only by default.  To change the priority, click on Email contact priorities.
1. Select the required priority level
2. Click OK
13. Click Send
14. The contacts with email accounts configured will be displayed
15. Click on any line to read the message, if required
16. Deselect any recipients in the Send column, if required
17. Click OK and click OK
18. The email message will be sent and a list of any accounts without an email address in SCO will be displayed
19. If required, click the Export to Excel button to create a list of names in Excel
20. Click Done