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How do I message students about assignment submissions in the Teacher app on my iOS device?

In the Teacher app, you can message students about their submissions based on the filter set for the assignment. You can send messages to all students, students with late submissions, students who have not submitted a submission, students whose submissions have not been graded, students whose submissions have been graded, students who received a score less than a specific value, and students who received a score greater than a specific value.

Messages are sent to students individually and display in the Conversations Inbox.

The images in this lesson are shown for a phone display, but unless otherwise noted, tablet displays mirror the same steps.

Open Course

In the Courses tab, tap the name of the course you'd like to view.

Open Assignments

Tap the Assignments link.

Note: All assignment types can be viewed in the Assignments page, but submissions can also be viewed in the page for their respective assignment type.

Open Assignment

Locate the assignment and tap the name of the assignment.

Open Submissions

The app will send a message to the filter selected in the app.

If you want to filter submissions by one of the three submission types in the submissions page, tap the submission status [1]. If you want to message a student by specific status, tap the Submissions link [2].

Filter Submissions

To apply a specific filter, tap the Filter link [1].

Tap the type of filter you want to apply [2]. You can filter submissions by all submissions, late submissions, students who have not submitted, submissions that have not been graded, graded submissions, submissions with a score less than a specific value, and submissions with a score greater than a specific value.