How do I send email attachments to my students?

Here are a few options for sending attachments to your students:

• CUNY Blackboard has comprehensive features for sharing documents with your students.
• Use Dropbox or Microsoft OneDrive to share files (including large files) with your students. You can create a shareable link to large files in Dropbox that can be added to emails sent from any of the available communication tools.
  • How to create a shareable link to files and folders using your CUNY Dropbox account
  • How to create a shareable link to files and folders using your Microsoft 365 OneDrive account
• Use the Send Email With Attachment feature on your Teaching Schedule and Roster app. There is a 5MB maximum file size for email attachments using this app. (Not recommended)

It is strongly recommended to not send attachments directly to students or to your entire class. Instead use the CUNY provided cloud options (Dropbox or Microsoft 365 OneDrive) to create shareable links to file and/or folders and include those links in your email.

Besides being much more efficient, sharing links has the following advantages: (1) You can update the file without sharing it again.
(2) You can also remove access to a file in the future.

Getting Starting with Dropbox
Getting Started with OneDrive