Message All Students: I don't have the "all" option

[KristinaRouth]

So I want to send an inbox message to all students in my school regarding a club interest meeting. I read the article on sending messages to all students, but I don't have the "all" option that was mentioned. Is there something I'm missing, or is it disabled for me?

[mzimmerman]

Kristina,

Where exactly are you seeing the mention of the "all" option to send an Inbox message to all students on the system?

Also, what is your role in Canvas?

[Chris_Hofer]

Hello @KristinaRouth ...

If you are a Canvas administrator at your school, you could post a message as a Global Announcement which could be targeted to all students.  You could set a start date/time and an end date/time for the announcement to be displayed to all students.  Here is the Guide that Canvas admins use to do this: How do I create a global announcement in an accoun... - Instructure Community.