Messaging Observers as a group about overall grades

[joben]

Hello,

I know there is a way to message students regarding course grades in New Analytics, but is there ANY way to message observers in the same manner? Without having to go one by one. 

Thanks!

[greydon · Accepted solution]

Hello @joben 

Thank you for contacting the Canvas Community. We're sorry to hear you've been experiencing issues with messaging observers in New Analytics. Unfortunately, you'd need to search and add each observer to the message "to" field to send observers a message in bulk via New Analytics. Here is the Canvas guide:

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-send-a-message-to-an-individual-student...

You could use the inbox on the left to send a message to the observers of a class  in bulk, but new analytics would need to be added one by one. Hopefully this helps! 

[FARRAHBUNCH]

To send individual inbox messages is very time-consuming when you have many students who fall in a certain grade range. It would be very helpful to Message Students Who and their observer. 

[tina_christophe]

Teachers are asked to communicate weekly with parents about student's scores. The Canvas grade book is our primary grade book. It would be very helpful if the email would go to observers with a report of Assignment groups and percentages and link to click on to go to the student's individual grades page. Can this be added to the feature ideas?

[FARRAHBUNCH]

I agree. It would be nice to link the Observer in the 'Message Students Who' from New Analytics or else add "Message Students Who" to the Total column in the grade book with the option to add the Observer. Just like you can from the individual assignments in the grade book.