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Emailing Learners in a Course - CC Function

  • April 15, 2026
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kfontanini
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Did I do something wrong in my setup, or is this expected behavior in Docebo?

I enrolled staff in a new course and then used the “Send email to enrolled learners” option from the Enrollments page. I CC’d our leaders so they’d have visibility that the communication went out.

What I did not expect was for Docebo to interpret “send email” as:

“Send one email per learner, individually, copying the leaders every single time.”

Shortly after sending, my CC’d leader came over to show me her inbox, which was receiving a separate copy of the same email for every enrolled learner. All 300 of them. Individually delivered.

Is this the intended behavior for this function, or is there a setting I’m missing to prevent CC’d recipients from receiving a copy per learner instead of a single message?

Within minutes, three other CC’d recipients also reached out asking me to “make it stop,” and I had to explain that, unfortunately, there was no way to interrupt it once sent—we all just had to ride it out together.

I have since directed the CC’d recipients to set up filters on their end to route these messages straight to the trash.

I have to laugh, because crawling under my desk at work is frowned upon.

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  • Novice III
  • April 15, 2026

One of the ways we combatted this in my org was to send emails directly from our internal email service from our shared inbox and cc’ing the leaders that way. 

It’s the only way I was able to provide that visibility for them to be made aware of mass assignments without bombarding them with emails for each user that is enrolled. 

It’s a great tool when I need to enroll and communicate with bulk users, but hard to manage communications for those cc’d in the LMS pushed email.


lrnlab
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  • April 15, 2026

Moshe.Machlav
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@kfontanini , you have my deepest sympathies! Crawling under the desk is completely justified. If it makes you feel any better, I once did something much worse: early in my career, I thought I had disabled a notification and accidentally sent an automated email to 800 managers telling them they had failed a mandatory course. It created an absolute uproar. But hey, at least everyone in the company got to know the new LMS! :)

To answer your question directly: no, you didn't miss a setting. This is exactly how Docebo handles it. Because the system needs to render individual user shortcodes (like their specific name or a course link), it processes the "send email" action as 300 individual mail merges. Consequently, the CC address just gets tacked onto every single one of those transactions.

To prevent this moving forward, it helps to separate learner communication from leader visibility. In organizations I've worked with, the cleanest solution is to skip the CC field entirely for mass emails, and instead set up a Digest: User enrolled in a course notification.

You can schedule this digest to go out to managers or specific branches on a daily or weekly basis. Docebo will automatically compile all those individual learner enrollments into one single, consolidated summary email for leadership, keeping everyone informed without destroying their inboxes.

You can check out the exact setup in the Digest notifications documentation.

Happy to share more detail if it helps!