 Hey, hey from CESA and welcome to Messages for Administrators. This training is designed to teach CESA for schools' customers how to use the messages feature in CESA. CESA brings educators, students, and families together to create a powerful learning loop between the classroom and the home. Messages allows for ongoing, flexible communication that builds a positive environment to support student learning designed with student safety and privacy first. By the end of this training, you will learn how to access and manage settings in messages, learn about administrator visibility into messaging, and how to send and respond to multimodal messages with other administrators, teachers, students, and families. As a CESA district or school administrator, you have access to settings and controls that personalize the messages experienced for your district or school. District admin access district-wide settings by logging into their district admin dashboard and clicking the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner. District admin have the option to customize messages settings for the entire district. This means any settings they change will affect every connected school in the district and school administrators are not able to change the settings set by the district administrators. By default, district messages settings are all set to let schools decide. To customize district messages settings, district admin click on the dropdown next to students, families, teachers, or administrators. District administrators can decide who students and families can create conversations with or let each school decide. District admin choose if students and families can create conversations with only teachers in their class or their child's class, any teachers or administrators, or no one. District administrators can decide who teachers can create conversations with or let each school decide. District admin choose if teachers can create conversations with only students and families in their class, in the school, or not at all. District administrators can decide who all administrators can create conversations with, or let each school decide. District admin choose if all administrators can create conversations with all teachers and administrators in the district, in the school, or not it all. When changed, these settings apply to all administrators in the seesaw district and schools. Make sure to click Save Changes after customizing messages settings. As a seesaw school administrator, you can also customize messages settings for your school depending on what the district administrator has customized. To access school settings, log into your school admin dashboard and click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner. Under School Settings, click Messages Settings. As an administrator, you can decide who students and families can create conversations with. Admin choose if students and families can create conversations with only teachers in their class or their child's class, any teachers or administrators, or no one. You can also adjust teacher settings to determine which students, families, teachers, and administrators teachers can create conversations with. For each audience, you can select in their classes, in the school, or not at all. There are also administrator settings. When changed, these settings apply to all administrators in the seesaw school. And don't forget to click Update Settings after customizing messages settings. Now it's your turn and just a minute you will pause the video to explore district or school messages settings. Just follow these steps. First, click the gear icon in your district or school administrator dashboard. Then click Messages Settings. Finally, adjust messages settings for students, families, teachers, and administrators. Pause the video now to explore the district or school messages settings. To explore more about seesaw messages, continue to part two to learn about visibility into seesaw messages.