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Let's look at sending messages in Administrative Access in Skyward.
Our first step is to open the Message Center...
Our first step is to open the Message Center...
Let's look at sending messages in Administrative Access in Skyward.
Our first step is to open the Message Center.
Once we're here, we'll click Add Message and select our recipients.
We can send messages to very specific audiences. For example, we could filter down to target students by grade level or by activity they're involved in, or we could send a message to guardians of students with the gifted and talented flag.
In this example today, we're going to send a message to all staff about an upcoming fire drill.
After we've selected our recipients, we can customize additional message options, like whether we want to hide CC'd recipients or allow replies.
We'll continue down and fill out the message itself and include any personalizations.
When we're ready to go, we can preview the message.
After we select Next, we can see who has subscribed to receive the message and who has mobile notifications set up.
On the top toolbar, we can schedule the message to send later, or we can send it now.
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Once it's sent, we'll be able to see who has logged into Skyward to check the message and who has read it or deleted it.
In the future, if we want to clone our message or retract it, we can do this on the Message Master List page.
Now, let's jump to the viewpoint of a recipient.
On the top toolbar in Skyward, click on My Messages.
This is a quick shortcut that will take us to all the messages we've received.
We can view, respond to, and delete messages here.
[Music]
But to create a new message, we'll want to go back to the full Message Center via the main menu.
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Our first step is to open the Message Center.
Once we're here, we'll click Add Message and select our recipients.
We can send messages to very specific audiences. For example, we could filter down to target students by grade level or by activity they're involved in, or we could send a message to guardians of students with the gifted and talented flag.
In this example today, we're going to send a message to all staff about an upcoming fire drill.
After we've selected our recipients, we can customize additional message options, like whether we want to hide CC'd recipients or allow replies.
We'll continue down and fill out the message itself and include any personalizations.
When we're ready to go, we can preview the message.
After we select Next, we can see who has subscribed to receive the message and who has mobile notifications set up.
On the top toolbar, we can schedule the message to send later, or we can send it now.
[Music]
Once it's sent, we'll be able to see who has logged into Skyward to check the message and who has read it or deleted it.
In the future, if we want to clone our message or retract it, we can do this on the Message Master List page.
Now, let's jump to the viewpoint of a recipient.
On the top toolbar in Skyward, click on My Messages.
This is a quick shortcut that will take us to all the messages we've received.
We can view, respond to, and delete messages here.
[Music]
But to create a new message, we'll want to go back to the full Message Center via the main menu.
