{"id":1112,"date":"2025-08-14T18:49:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2025-08-16T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T12:24:33","slug":"new-feature-send-real-time-messages-to-students-during-a-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/new-feature-send-real-time-messages-to-students-during-a-test\/","title":{"rendered":"New Feature: Send Real-Time Messages to Students During a Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We just rolled out something that a lot of you have been asking for: you can now send quick, targeted messages straight to a student while they\u2019re in the middle of taking a test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Picture this:<br>You\u2019re monitoring your class in the proctor view. One student seems stuck on a question, another keeps leaving full-screen, and someone else clearly didn\u2019t read the instructions. Instead of calling them out across the room (or emailing after the fact), you can click their name, type a quick note, and it pops up right on their test page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How it works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Click &amp; type:<\/strong> From the monitor app, click the little \u201cmessage\u201d icon next to a student\u2019s name.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Choose or write:<\/strong> Pick from a quick template like <em>\u201cStay on the test page, please.\u201d<\/em> or type your own custom note (up to 500 characters).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Send:<\/strong> The message is instantly queued for that student.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When they get it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>If they\u2019re online (on that test):<\/strong> The message usually appears within seconds, in a blue notification box with an \u201cOK\u201d button.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If they\u2019re not online yet:<\/strong> No worries\u2014messages wait in a queue until they open that same test. As long as it\u2019s within 24 hours, it\u2019ll show up when they start.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>If they\u2019ve left the test:<\/strong> If they come back within 24 hours, the queued messages will be there. After that, the system automatically deletes them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Either way, every message you send is <strong>permanently logged<\/strong> in the student\u2019s proctoring record for that test\u2014so even if they never see it in real time, you still have a record of what you sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few tips<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep it short and specific. The best in-test messages are direct (\u201cAnswer #3 needs a complete sentence.\u201d) rather than vague.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If a student doesn\u2019t respond or fix the issue, follow up in person or through your regular channels after the test.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remember that messages are tied to a <strong>specific test<\/strong>\u2014you can\u2019t send a \u201cglobal\u201d message that will pop up no matter what page they\u2019re on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just rolled out something that a lot of you have been asking for: you can now send quick, targeted messages straight to a student while they\u2019re in the middle of taking a test. Picture this:You\u2019re monitoring your class in the proctor view. One student seems stuck on a question, another keeps leaving full-screen, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/new-feature-send-real-time-messages-to-students-during-a-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Feature: Send Real-Time Messages to Students During a Test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationassessments.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}