Email Pop Out with Autofill Subject

Megan Peter

Hi

We would like to have a link to an email on one of our Resource Boards that pops out when selected. For example, if a student needed testing accommodations, they would click on the link “Request Testing Accommodations” and an email addressed to the correct person with an auto filled subject line would pop up. Then the student/parent would fill out the appropriate info and send the email. But I can't seem to find an easy way to do this. I have an idea using Google Forms as a work around.

Thanks,

Brian Gray

@Megan Peter - This is possible to do, but the behavior depends in part on the settings of the user's browser. There's no guarantee that the browser will open the correct email program for the user. Your text should include the name and email address just in case the link does not work.

The HTML mailto: option for an anchor (link) tag can be used. See the page below for some examples.

To add the raw HTML to the Resource Board page, edit the element and click the <> button (source code editing). That will open the HTML editor for the element. You can then paste the anchor tag into your page.

Casey Jones

@Megan Peter You could create a custom form from core to do this as well. You can set it to email whoever you want and set up auto-confirmations that would go to the student who created it. At my previous school, I created custom forms for teacher grade changes, student schedule change requests, among other things. They can be posted to the resource board. And once you have one built out you can use them year after year. Hope this helps!
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