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title: "Messaging in your course"
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<span style="color: #111111">Messaging is a helpful way to communicate with other students in your course. Messaging does not allow attachments, so you must use your email to send an attachment. </span>

<span style="color: #111111">This section will show you different methods on how to use this tool.</span>

1. <span style="color: #111111">[To message one person, use Method 1](#Method-1)</span>
2. <span style="color: #111111">[To message all active participants in your course, use Method 2](#Method-2)</span>

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Before you begin, you must enable messaging.

<span style="color: #111111">**Enabling Messaging **</span>

<span style="color: #111111">If you want to communicate with others using the messaging function, first enable this through the </span><span style="color: #111111">**Messages **</span><span style="color: #111111">preferences. The following settings need to be enabled to use messaging.</span>

<span style="color: #111111">In the upper-right corner of the course, select messaging by clicking the speech bubble icon, then select the gear icon to open the settings panel.</span>

![image](media://182f6bb2-aed6-4c93-be5c-dc9168bc991c)

<span style="color: #111111">Select the circle (radio button) next to </span><span style="color: #111111">**My contacts and anyone in my courses**</span><span style="color: #111111">.</span>

![image](media://bd657ee7-277c-42d2-8ab8-8fb62265ab62)

<span style="color: #111111">Messaging is now enabled.</span>

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## > Macro (anchor)

<span style="color: #111111">Method 1: Messaging from the user menu </span>

<span style="color: #111111">How to message a few people at a time using the messaging menu inside of mêskanâs.</span>

<span style="color: #111111">  </span>

![image](media://2779f56e-69c7-4f3c-b092-27bee3d75d34)

<span style="color: #111111">Message individual users </span>

<span style="color: #111111">Navigate to the user menu from the navigation bar in the top-right corner of the screen, select the </span><span style="color: #111111">**Messages **</span><span style="color: #111111">icon (speech bubble shaped icon).</span>

![image](media://38f7b587-e4a7-476e-861b-c4272ad6b0ab)

<span style="color: #111111">On the next screen, search for the user in the search bar ( with the magnifying glass icon) and select the contact from the list.</span>

![image](media://641d8ebe-2607-471f-bdb8-e2436efc6ee6)

<span style="color: #111111">In the box at the bottom of the page, type the message in the box at the bottom of the screen.</span>

![image](media://10fbe1f8-2e80-4a54-884d-555b3cc1775e)

<span style="color: #111111">Click on the send icon (looks like a paper airplane) </span>

<span style="color: #111111">The recipient will receive a notification that looks like this:</span>

![image](media://6974e715-3b58-4d38-82d1-d53e8b04b957)

<span style="color: #111111">They may also get an email if their preferences are set to receive one.</span>


## > Macro (anchor)

<span style="color: #111111">Method 2: Messaging from the participant's menu </span>

<span style="color: #111111">Inside of a course, you can send a message to all participants in the course or a few at a time. </span>

<span style="color: #111111">We recommend only sending it to all Active students unless you have a participant list without any suspended students.</span>


<span style="color: #111111">Select </span><span style="color: #111111">**Participants**</span><span style="color: #111111"> from the navigation menu on the main course page.</span>

![image](media://916232f2-fece-4297-ae12-e248c2d0c763)


<span style="color: #000000">In the participant list, choose </span><span style="color: #000000">**Status**</span><span style="color: #000000"> from the drop-down menu:</span>

![image](media://1e25ca33-7b0b-4ddf-ac83-f8db5c4e104b)


<span style="color: #000000">Then choose </span><span style="color: #000000">**Active**</span><span style="color: #000000"> from the drop-down</span>

![image](media://8d99d1e2-9028-416a-92ce-ba1267f3e7bc)


<span style="color: #000000">Then click the </span><span style="color: #000000">**Apply Filters**</span><span style="color: #000000"> button</span>

![image](media://37d8eb2d-c50f-41d3-8f6e-034e1da1b6b1)


<span style="color: #111111">Below the filters, you can select the checkbox below </span><span style="color: #111111">**First name / Surname**</span><span style="color: #111111"> to select all course participants:</span>

![image](media://7efa3e48-ead6-4929-8d0c-b6d2bface743)

<span style="color: #111111">At the bottom of the page, click on the drop-down menu called:  </span><span style="color: #111111">**With selected users…**</span>  
<span style="color: #111111">Click on </span><span style="color: #111111">**Send a message**</span><span style="color: #111111">.</span>

![image](media://e1ecb793-459f-4489-8c2f-c4c2fed8d886)


<span style="color: #111111">Type the message in the message box</span>

![image](media://59735ab1-4309-4f58-9f6f-ba5e3a4ad552)

<span style="color: #111111">Then click on </span><span style="color: #111111">**SEND MESSAGE to # PERSONs**</span><span style="color: #111111">. (in this example the message is sent to seven people)</span>