Teacher-to-Student Messaging is a new feature that lets high school teachers message students directly in ClassDojo—one-on-one or in groups. It’s designed to help students stay engaged, informed, and supported.
If your school is part of the pilot, here’s how to get started:
1. School Leaders must turn on messaging
A School Leader needs to enable Teacher-to-Student Messaging in their school settings.
Please note: Turning it off later will close all active chats.
2. Teachers enable messaging for their class
Once it's turned on schoolwide, you can enable messaging in your class settings.
Go to the Students tab, then click Connect students without access. This sends an email invite to each student with instructions to join.
Please note: This step must be done on the website (not in the app).
3. Confirm students have joined
After a student accepts the invite, you’ll see “last active” next to their name. If they haven’t joined yet, it will show “resend.”
4. Start the conversation
Students can’t start chats—only teachers can. To begin:
- Go to your class landing page and click Chats
- Click the purple pencil icon to start a new chat
- Choose New group or search for a student to message individually
Once you’ve sent the first message, students can reply!