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Investigate messages with oversight search
A 60-second screen recording of a real school doing exactly this — and the same 6 steps written out below, in the labels you'll see on screen.
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How to investigate messages with oversight search
- 1Click Messages under Communication in the sidebar
- 2Open Message oversight
- 3Note the warning: these are private messages, and searches and opened messages are written to the activity log
- 4Type into "Search sender, subject, or text…" and optionally filter by recipient
- 5Click Search and open the relevant thread
- 6Click Clear when done
Part of Messages & announcements
One compose reaches every family's portal inbox — plus teacher-to-family threads and an oversight search so leadership can stand behind every message.
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Do it yourself in the live demo
Follow these steps in a real sandbox school — admin, teacher, family, and student views. Sample data resets daily.