# Conversations - send messages to individual course members

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## Conversations - send messages to individual course members

### What it Does

#### Conversations

Allows user to send messages to individual course members.

### Additional Considerations

#### Conversations

When disabled, students can still send individual messages to course teachers, course TAs, and students that belong to the same account-level groups.

#### People

To edit a user’s section, Users - allow administrative actions in courses and Users - view list must also be enabled.

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This documentation is generated directly from the Canvas LMS source code, available [on Github](https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms).