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As of September 2025, Google Classroom classes are automatically created for fourth and fifth grade homeroom teachers, all Middle School teachers and all Upper School teachers based on rosters in MyDE. Any class for which you are assigned as the teacher in MyDE is added to your Google Classroom automatically by the start of the school year, and students on your MyDE Roster will automatically be added to that class.
For more information, click the header above to expand this section.Your MyDE classes will appear on the Home screen of Google Classroom. You will need to to choose Accept for each class that you want to use in Classroom.
For each class you Accept, if students are added to or removed from your class in MyDE, your Google Classroom rosters will also be updated overnight. You can start adding and editing content in Google Classroom at any time. However, students may not show up on your Classroom rosters until the first day of school for students.
More details about the roster synchronization (provided by Clever) are here.
When you look at your student roster under People in Google Classroom, you may see some students have their guardians "invited" to the Google Classroom. This does NOT mean parents have access to your Google Classroom class. Please do not remove the invitations. (Click here for more details.)
Even if guardians have been "invited" to Classroom, guardians never have the ability to log into your classroom and browse your content. There is no feature from Google to allow guardians to login to your Google Classroom class (unless, of course, they use their childs username and password).
Any teacher can "invite" guardians to link them to child in Google Classroom. However, when they do that, the link appears on the roster of all classes in which the student is enrolled. This seems to carry over from year to year. If you see guardians linked to some of your students, and you didn't invite them, they were probably invited by a colleague or from the student's previous teacher.
When parents have been linked to their students, they can be emailed Guardian Summaries from Google Classroom only if you enable that.
Guardian Summaries are OFF by default for classes in Google Classroom. They can be turned on for individual classrooms in the settings for that classroom.
If you see that there are guardians that have been invited to your class, PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE THEM. They do not have any access to anything you post in Classroom unless you turn on Guardian Summaries.
If you remove the guardian, it will generate an email to the parent telling them that they have been removed from their child's classroom account, and the message is a little off-putting.
See this Google support article for details.
For Upper School teachers, if you use Google Classroom to post assignment details, you can post a reoccurring daily homework assignment in MyDE that references Google Classroom rather than just directing students at the beginning of the year or semester to look on Google Classroom. This provides the ability for students to use the assignment tracking features in MyDE to see and update completion status for all of their assignments across all courses in one place. See this Blackboard support article What are the assignment instance settings when adding an assignment? for details on how to create a reoccuring assignment in MyDE.
Introduction to Google Classroom Course by Google for Education