Learning Suite

How do Learning Suite messages work?

You may have seen a small envelope icon on your Learning Suite page. If you have messages, the number of messages will be displayed over the envelope.

The new Messaging function will continue to be improved. Many faculty prefer to have student and class-related emails in one mailbox so as not to be mixed in with their personal or other work emails.

It also allows part-time and adjunct faculty and TAs to have an email box in which to perform their classwork and not have to give out their personal email addresses to the class.

CTL tells us that although any e-mail system can be hacked, the new Message system should be more secure than other message systems that students might be using (such as Gmail).

In addition, if a student were in a legal dispute with a faculty member and the court requested e-mails of the exchanges between student and faculty, a faculty member using LS Messages and not their Outlook or Gmail account to correspond with students would need to turn over only Learning Suite messages.

Useful Resources

Learning Suite Basics:
https://softwaresupport.byu.edu/learning-suite/student/basics
Learning Suite Student Help:
https://softwaresupport.byu.edu/learning-suite/student