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In thinking about this for a few more moments, I came up with a somewhat-ugly workaround for what you would like to do using teams and the action editor. You would enroll everyone onto a team and then create an action which will remove students from the team once they have posted. To send a reminder to students who have not yet posted to the forum you would send a message to the team. If you need to do this for multiple forums you will need to create multiple teams.

To create the action:

1. Create a team. Set hidden to yes if you do not want students to see this team or its membership. Copy the team name for later use.
2. If students have not yet started posting to the forum enroll all students onto the team. Otherwise, enroll only those who have not yet posted.
3. Enter the forum's settings. Select the Action tab.
4. Switch to Advanced view if needed. Click Action Editor.
5. Click New.
6. Click Team Unenroll.
7. In the Team(s) field paste the name of the team that you created in step 1. The team name must match exactly including case as well as spaces or punctuation.
8. Set event to submit.
9. Scroll to the bottom and press the save button.
10. Press the save button at the top of this window. The window will close.
11. Back in the main window, press the save button.

To send email:

1. Begin a new mail message.
2. Click the To button.
3. In the Quick Search section click Teams.
4. Check the box for the team created when creating the action then press the Bcc button. Using Bcc will ensure that students will not see the list of recipients or the team name.
5. Finish composing your message as normal

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You can use this method for other content types as well. It makes most sense with those content types that are submitted: assessments, drop boxes, forums, games, PSUUTS, quizzes, and surveys.