---
title: Message your students
sidebarTitle: Blasts
description: >-
  Email everyone enrolled in a course, or the students you pick, now or at a
  time you schedule.
audience: luminary
feature: courses
type: guide
availability: beta
last_verified: '2026-10-22'
keywords:
  - email students
  - message students
  - course update email
  - course announcement
  - email enrolled students
  - course blast
url: 'https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/courses/message-your-students'
---

# Message your students

> Email everyone enrolled in a course, or the students you pick, now or at a time you schedule.

**Note:** 
**Beta.** Course blasts are rolling out. If your course doesn't have a Blasts tab yet, use an
[announcement](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/announcements) for now.

You'll end up with an email (a Blast) that reaches the students of one course, sent right away or scheduled for later.

## When to use this

- A new module or lesson is ready.
- A schedule change, such as a moved live call for a cohort-style course.
- Encouragement halfway through, or a nudge to people who stalled.
- A thank-you at the end, and what to take on next.

## Steps

**Step 1: Open the Blasts tab**

Go to [Offerings → Courses](https://portal.bringsoul.life/courses), open the course and click
Blasts. Click Create Blast.

**Step 2: Write it**

Add your Message. The Subject is optional: leave it blank and the email is titled _"Course
Update:"_ followed by your course's title. Format it with the toolbar above the message:
headings, bold and italics, lists, quotes, links and images.

**Step 3: Choose recipients**

By default it goes to All Enrolled Students. To narrow it, open Advanced Options, choose
Specific students and tick the people you want. The list shows everyone enrolled; search it by
name or email when it's long.

**Step 4: Choose when to send**

Under When to send, pick Send immediately or Schedule for later and choose the Date and Time.

**Step 5: Send it**

Click Send Blast, or Schedule Blast for a scheduled one. A blast you send now goes out right
away and shows as Sent. A scheduled one waits in the list as Scheduled.

A scheduled blast can be changed with Edit, sent early with Send Now, or removed with Delete. Delete asks you to confirm first.

**Warning:** 
A sent blast can't be edited or deleted. Check the recipients and the message before you send.

## Who gets it

- All Enrolled Students means everyone whose enrollment is Active. People with an Unpaid enrollment (a checkout they didn't finish) don't get it. Refunded students don't either.
- Specific students only lists people who are enrolled. Someone who enrolls after you schedule a blast to All Enrolled Students still gets it, as long as they're enrolled when it sends.

## Tips

- Blasts vs. automations. A blast goes to everyone at once. An [automation](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/courses/send-a-welcome-email-on-enrollment) sends something to each person the moment they enroll, including people who enroll later.
- Blasts vs. announcements. Blasts go only to this course's students. To tell your whole audience about the course, use an [announcement](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/audience/announcements).
- Point people back in. The email has a View Course button that opens the course, so a short note about what's new is enough.

## What your students see

The blast arrives as an email from you with a View Course button. It's also kept on the course page under Messages from <your portal name>, so they can find it again.

## Related

- [Track enrollments and progress](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/courses/track-enrollments-and-progress)
- [Send a welcome email when someone enrolls](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/courses/send-a-welcome-email-on-enrollment)
- [Run a cohort-style course](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/courses/run-a-cohort-style-course)
- [Message your event registrants](https://help.bringsoul.life/luminaries/offerings/events/message-your-registrants)