Nectir

Vicky Le

Everything you need to know on how to use Nectir for your classroom communication.

Using Nectir

What is a public channel

Nectir gives you feedback on your students engagement in real time so that you can use that data to drive instruction.

Data-Driven Instruction in Every Class

As a channel owner, you will have the ability to make edits to the channel's information.

Editing Channel Information

Nectir Channel Options

What is a private channel

Translate messages or set a channel to auto-translate

Using Nectir's translation feature

Create a chat space for you and your students to communicate instantaneously

Creating a channel

Use the directory to join any public channels

Joining a channel

View your workspace's channel directory to see all the public channels

Discover Public Channels

View a list of all the members in a channel and see who's online

Channel members list

Leave a channel once your class is over or when you no longer need it

Leaving a channel

Archiving channels

Channels

Display an important message or greeting on your Nectir channel by setting an announcement banner

Setting an announcement banner

Change your channel from private to public, or vice versa, at any time.

Changing your channel's visibility

Adding a password to public channel

Channel settings

Everything on using polls in your Nectir channel

Creating a poll

Create a welcoming space in your channel by sending GIFs and encouraging students to interact with each other.

Sending a GIF

Nectir Message Options

What is a direct message

Sending a message

Send a private message to another user on Nectir

Sending a direct message

React to any message on Nectir with emojis

Reacting to messages with emojis

Share files with other users in the channel and quickly access all files in a channel on Nectir.

Sending a file on Nectir

Upload and send videos to your Nectir channel

Sending videos to your channel

Use thread when responding to messages to organize conversations

What is a thread

Using bold, italics, and multi line code, and KaTeX functions in your Nectir messages

Customizing a message: bold, italics, code, KaTeX, and more

Messages

Instantly notify a user by mentioning them in the channel

Mentioning a user in the channel

Searching messages within a channel

Use Nectir polls to quickly take attendance for your class

Taking attendance

Pinning a message

Star a message so you can easily access it later on

Starring a message

Ways to delete or edit a message on your Nectir channel

Deleting a message

Prune or bulk delete messages in a Nectir channel

Pruning messages

Message features

Invite users to your private channel by sending an invite link.

Add users to your channel via invite link

Quick way to add people from your school into the workspace

Invite Users to the Workspace

As a channel owner, you can set roles for specific people in the channel.

Changing user roles in a channel

Adding users to a channel

Removing a user from channel

Different types of user permissions & how to set them

Setting member permissions

Users

Use sub-channels for breakouts and to keep conversations from cluttering the main channel

What is a sub-channel

Create a breakout sub-channel within your class channel

Creating a sub-channel

All the ways to add a user to a Nectir channel or sub-channel

Adding user to a channel or sub-channel

Channel discussions