[ARCHIVED] Limit Student Inboxes

[kristagalyon]

Is there a way to limit a student's inbox messaging to only be able to message teachers and only receive messages from teachers? 

[thomas_acker]

talk to administrators.  Our students cannot message each other as long as the People tab is hidden, i believe. 

[chadscott · Accepted solution]

Howdy,

There is a course level permission that can be set by role to allow/disallow sending messages to course individuals. If the permission is disabled, the role (students in this case) can only send messages to teachers and TA's or custom roles built off those roles.

Cheers,
Chad Scott

[NicoleLeeCFAI]

Hello! I am new to the community. Can you tell where this setting is at the course level? Canvas support is saying there's not a way to limit who students can message. And we do have the people tab hidden. Thanks!

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @NicoleLeeCFAI ...

I believe the Permission setting that @chadscott was referring to was this one...which is controlled by your school's Canvas administrator:

This Guide might also be of help:

How do I set permissions for a course-level role in an account?

I hope this will help a bit.  Sing out if you have any questions...thanks!

[NicoleLeeCFAI]

Thank you so much! I had been looking for "inbox" permissions. I really appreciate the quick reply and help!