Teacher Messaging

Important: Only those features that you have been granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact your system administrator.  Parents and student users who require assistance should contact their school or district.

 

Topics covered in this section:

 

 

Create a Group (Teachers Only)

 

 

 

If your group creation is disabled, your Groups page will appear as below:

 

Important: Only those features that you have been granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact your system administrator.  Parents and student users who require assistance should contact their school or district.

 

 

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Viewing a Group's Membership

For User-Created Groups

 

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Delete or Rename a Group

 

For Roster Data Groups:  

 

Unlike user-created groups, Roster Data Groups cannot be edited by the teacher. There isn’t a Details button that will allow the user to change the group name or delete the group. Teacher’s also can’t remove or add participants and participants can’t remove or add themselves into groups.

Important: Only those features that you have been granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact your system administrator.  Parents and student users who require assistance should contact their school or district.  

 

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Create a Message

 

Important: Only those features that you have been granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact your system administrator.  Parents and student users who require assistance should contact their school or district.

 

Creating a message is a very simple process. You select the recipients your message will be sent to, designate whether their comments will be readable to others in the group, solely by the teacher, or not at all (comment not permitted).

 

 

To create a Message:

1.      Click on New Message.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Click Next.

 

The Compose Message window appears.

 

Select your Comment Settings

If you’re ready to send your message, tap Send. You’ll then be prompted to select your Comment Settings:

·        The Group: comments to your message will be seen by the entire group

·        Me Privately: only the teacher will see comments sent by individuals

·        Comments not allowed: no one will be able to send a response

·        Commenters’ names: check the box to allow everyone to see everyone’s names

  

 

Replies Disabled

If your replies have been disabled by a system administrator, you will only have 1 option when sending your message – “Comments not allowed”:

 

 

Note: If you would like comments enabled, please contact support: (phone) 800-920-3897, (email) support@schoolmessenger.com

 

 

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Add an Attachment

Important: Only those features that you have been granted access to will display. For access to additional features contact your system administrator.  Parents and student users who require assistance should contact their school or district.

 

Use attachments to send the following file types to parents, guardians and students:

·        images (PNG, JPG)

·        documents (PDF, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX)

·        video (MP4)

·        audio (MP3, WAV, M4A)

Note that the max file size is 20MB and you can only send 1 attachment per message.

After clicking the Attachment icon, the Upload box appears.

 

 

 

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Delete an Entire Message Thread or a Member Comment

Teachers can delete whole message threads or single comments.

 

 

 

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