You must have appropriate permissions in a site to be able to send email to the site email address.

• Collaboration Sites: By default, anyone in the Owner, Administrator and Member roles may send email to a collaboration site email address.
• Course Sites: By default, anyone in the Instructor, Secondary Instructor, or Teaching Assistant roles may send email to a course site email address. Students do not have permission to send email to a course site address by default.  Instructors may permit students in the site to send email to the site address by enabling the Send email to the site permission for the Student role under Site Email > Permissions in the site.

To send a message, you must use the email address registered to the account on which you have been added to the site.  In most cases, this would be your UVa email address.  If the default email client on your computer or device is not configured to send email from this address, you will need to copy and paste the site email address into a new message.

Notes:

• A UVa account requires a deliverable email address in order to be able to send emails to UVaCollab sites. Refer to the ITS Address Management System (AMS) site for more information about setting up a deliverable address.
• You cannot use Site Email to send mail to particular individuals. To send messages to individual participants or a group, use either the Announcements tool or the Messages tool.

Site templates are pre-configured sites from which new sites may be created. Site templates...

• Support both course and collaboration site types,
• Streamline the site creation process,
• Include pre-selected tools and content, and
• Standardize the presentation of content and activities for site participants.

UVa departments and schools may consult with the UVaCollab team to request a site template with specific features, naming conventions, and content to standardize sites for their courses.

Refer to How do I create a new course or collaboration site for steps to create a site using a site template.