How channels work
Messaging in Lumicura happens in channels — who's in each one, why you're already in the right ones, and how channels relate to the announcements feed.
All messaging in Lumicura happens in channels — shared rooms organized around something real: a grade, a committee, an event, the whole school. No more hunting for the right group text or discovering in May that there were two.
You’re already in the right channels
When your account is created, Lumicura reads your family’s roster entry and adds you to the channels that apply to you automatically:
- A channel for each of your children’s grades — third-grade parents talk here.
- Channels for committees you’re part of.
- Any school-wide channels your school runs.
Have a kindergartner and a fourth-grader? You’re in both grade channels. As your children move up each year, your channels follow — nothing to rejoin.
Channels are for discussion; announcements live elsewhere
Everyone in a channel can post, react, and reply — channels are where coordination actually happens. Official news is deliberately kept out of the chat scroll: it has its own Announcements feed, where a small set of authorized people (typically the board) post and everyone reads. That way “the gym is closed Friday” stays readable instead of disappearing under sixty replies. See Read and catch up on announcements.
Who can see what you write
A message posted in a channel is visible to everyone in that channel — no more, no less. The member list is right in the channel’s settings, so you never have to guess who’s reading. There are no private direct messages in Lumicura today; conversations stay in shared, visible rooms.