Students enrolled in term-based courses, as well as non-term-based courses such as Open Learning courses and those made with the EMT Create Organization tool, have full access to the messaging capabilities of the ELMS Inbox Conversion tool. In addition to communicating with instructors and TAs, the tool can be used to communicate with individual students or all students enrolled in their courses.

EMT manage student messaging permissions

Using the Manage Student Messaging Permissions tool and the Manage Student Messaging Permissions, Non-term Based Courses tool in the ELMS Management Tool (EMT), instructors can manage students' ability to message other students.  These tools provide the following options:

• Student to class and student to individual student(s):  Allows students unrestricted messaging in a Canvas course.  With this choice, students have the ability to message instructors, TAs, and other students. In Canvas this is the default Student role.
• Student to individual student(s) only:  Allows students to message only individual students in a Canvas course.  With this choice students are not able to message the entire class with a single click; they would have to check the box next to each individual student's name.  In Canvas, this is the S2S Comm Only role.
• No student-to-student messaging:  Allows students to message only instructors and TAs in a Canvas course.  With this choice, students in your course would not be able to message other students in Canvas, but they would still be able to message instructors and TAs.  In Canvas, this is the No S2S Comm role.

Managing messaging permissions for term-based courses

To manage messaging permissions in ELMS-Canvas term-based courses using EMT, follow these steps:

1. Go to https://emt.umd.edu. Log in with your Directory credentials.
2. Click on the Manage Students Messaging Permissions link.
3. Select a Term from the term menu.
4. Click on the Load courses from SIS button.
5. Click once on the course for which you wish to manage student messaging permissions. Click the go button.
6. Select the student messaging permission you wish to apply to this ELMS-Canvas course.

   

7. Click the Update student messaging permissions button. This request can take up to two hours to complete.

Managing messaging permissions for non-term based courses

Note:  If you change the role of students in an Open Learning (Catalog) course to Student to individual student(s) only or No student-to-student messaging, then students can no longer drop a course. This is due to Open Learning only being able to see/use the Student role.

To manage permissions for courses delivered through Open Learning (Open Catalog), or that are created using the Create Organizations tool, follow these steps:

1. Go to https://emt.umd.edu. Log in with your Directory credentials.
2. Click on the Manage Student Messaging Permissions, Non-term Based Courses link.
3. Select a Term from the term menu and choose between Catalog, Organization, Non-Credit Workshop/Course or Non-Term Based Course.
4. Click on the Load courses from Canvas button.
5. Click once on the course for which you wish to manage student messaging permissions. Click the go button.
   
   
6. Select the student messaging permission you wish to apply to this ELMS-Canvas course.
7. Click the Update student messaging permissions button. This request can take up to two hours to complete.