Messenger Setup, Contacts and Reports - Study Guide

Messenger allows emails to be sent to parents, students, and staff members. If your district purchased Messenger with Voice or Text Messenger, voice and text messages can be sent to recipients.

Before messages can be sent, system setup is required. The type of messages to be sent, such as Attendance and Behavior, needs to be established for the contacts. The type of delivery devices needs to be assigned to the contacts as well.

Reports can be run to check the status of a message, and to see which contacts received it.

Census Overview for Messenger

This section goes over the steps to set up contacts for Messenger.

Contact Preferences

Email messages can be sent to parents, students and district staff members. A person must have an email address entered on the Demographics tab to receive email messages.

If your district uses Messenger with Voice, phone numbers must be established on the Demographics tab as well.

To send messages to student contacts/guardians, setup is required.

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Contact Preferences Batch Tool

The Contact Preferences Batch tool allows districts to set up messenger contact preferences en masse. Districts can use the wizard to refresh contact preferences; however, if parents have made their own preferences through the Campus Portal, this wizard may overwrite those settings.

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System Setup for Messenger

Learn to set the options needed to send email and voicemail messages.

Email Settings

The Email Settings tab allows a system administrator to configure general settings for email messages.

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Messenger with Voice Settings

This topic pertains to districts that use Campus Messenger with Voice. 

Campus Messenger with Voice allows district staff the ability to create voice messages for delivery to parents, students and/or other district staff.

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Messenger Reports and Canceling Messages

Messages that are in progress or are waiting to be sent can be canceled. Reports tell who the recipients of a message are, and when the message was sent.

Cancel Messages

You can use the Sent Message Log tool to cancel messages that are currently running (In-Progress) or messages that have been scheduled but have not completed (Waiting).

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Recipient Log

The Recipient Log allows a system administrator to review messages by any user to a recipient. It also provides detailed information about messages sent via email, voice, and text.

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Sent Message Log

The Sent Message log allows you to review messages that have been sent.

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Mailgun

Mailgun is an email automation service for sending, receiving, and tracking email sent through Campus.

Configure Campus for Mailgun

To send email messages using Mailgun, it must be configured in Campus.

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View Messages Sent Via Mailgun

The Mailgun Message Log contains all of the messages sent by the district via the Mailgun API with an indication of each event status, who received the email, the subject of the email, and any potential errors which occurred.

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