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Investigate messages with oversight search
A screen recording of Pearspark doing exactly this in a sample school, and the same 8 steps written out below in the labels you'll see on screen.
How to investigate messages with oversight search
- 1Click Messages in the sidebar (pinned near the top)
- 2Click "Oversight" at the top right — it opens Message oversight
- 3Note the warning: these are private messages, and searches and opened messages are written to the activity log
- 4Nothing is listed until you search — type into "Search sender, subject, or text…"
- 5Optionally narrow by recipient (To a student, To a teacher, To a class…)
- 6Click Search — a count, then one card per match: who sent it, to whom, and when
- 7Click a card to read the whole message — opening it is logged too
- 8Open Activity log under Administration: your search and the message you opened are listed with your name and the time
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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