Messages: community chats, direct messages and Activity

Chat spaces

1. On a community's wall, press the pencil beside a space in the menu (or add a space).
2. Set Shows as to Chat (quick messages, in Messages).
3. Choose whether Only teachers and moderators write here, and a Slow mode (a wait between a member's messages).

Direct messages

• Press the gear in Messages to choose: students may message Their teachers (the usual), Teachers and classmates (in the same community), or Nobody (they can still answer you). Kids mode never lets students message each other.
• Phone numbers, emails and links to other apps are taken out of conversations a student is in, and the message says so.
• Anyone can block someone from a conversation's ⋯ menu.
• Paused: a member who reads but cannot send messages anywhere.
• You can start a group chat with chosen people (+ Group).

In a conversation

• Each message's ⋯: react, Reply, Edit your own, and for teachers and moderators Pin, Hold for review and Post to the feed (a great answer becomes a post, by its writer).
• Only teachers delete someone else's message. You never see conversations you are not in — and neither do moderators.
• Unread counts show in the list, on Messages in the menu, and on the community's menu.