1 What the Message center is
The Message center is the teacher’s one-to-one communication with students. It opens from the “Message center” card in the top bar (Private & group messages). The Message center has two tabs: Private messages (conversations with students) and Group Messages (announcements to courses). This guide covers private messages. Messages are organised by participant: you choose a student and see their message threads.
2 Overview
The view has two parts: the participant search on the left, and the selected participant’s conversations, messages and message writing on the right.
3 Choosing a recipient
First choose the student you want to message. At the top of the sidebar are a filter and a search.
- Aktiiviset / Kaikki (active / all) – show only participants active on a course or all recipients.
- Search – “Search by student, course, or number”. Start typing to narrow the list by name, course or student number.
- Participant list – click a student to open their messages. The course and number are shown below the name.
4 Conversations and messages
Once you have chosen a participant, you see their conversations (message threads). Click a conversation to open its messages in chronological order.
- Conversations – a list of the message threads with the student. If there are none, it reads “No previous conversations.”
- Messages – the messages of the selected conversation; the student’s and the teacher’s messages are shown differently. An empty conversation reads “No messages in this conversation yet.”
5 Replying and starting a new conversation
You can reply to the open conversation or start a completely new one.
- Replying – write the message in the Message field of the Compose message section at the bottom and press Send.
- Start new conversation – opens a new thread: enter a Subject, write the Message and press Send.
