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Automatic Class Creation and Roster Sync
Automatic Class Creation and Roster Sync
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.
Details for CS staff on the process required to enable this are here under Clever.
Basic Tasks
Basic Tasks
Click here for slides showing where to perform basic tasks including posting an assignment. (Read the slide speaker notes for additional details.)
Parent Access to Google Classroom and Guardian Summaries
Parent Access to Google Classroom and Guardian Summaries
Parents: Follow this link for information for parents.
Teachers: When you look at your student roster under People in Google Classroom, you may see students have their guardians "invited" to the Google Classroom. This does NOT mean parents automatically have access to everything in your Google Classroom class. If enabled by a teacher, parents have access to Guardian Summaries. Note that D-E has Google Edu Plus so Guardian Summaries include preview links. Follow the links below for sample images from Google of what this looks like:
For more information, click the header above to expand this section.
Even if guardians have been "invited" to Classroom, guardians never have the ability to sign in to your classroom or change anything. There is no feature from Google to allow guardians to sign in to your Google Classroom class (unless, of course, they use their childs username and password).
The Technology Department can "invite" guardians to link them to a student in Google Classroom. The link appears on the roster of all classes in which the student is enrolled.
When parents have been linked to their students, they can be emailed Guardian Summaries from Google Classroom only if you enable that. (D-E has Google Edu Plus so Guardian Summaries include preview links.). Guardian Summaries provides a read-only view of missing work, new announcements, and the Classwork page.
Guardian Summaries are OFF by default for classes in Google Classroom. They can be turned on by teachers for individual classrooms in the settings for that classroom. Guardians do not have any access to anything you post in Classroom unless you turn on Guardian Summaries.
What’s included in an email summary?
What’s included in an email summary?
Missing work—Work not turned in when the summary was sent.
Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails).
Class activity—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.
Guardian preview links
What are guardian preview links?
What are guardian preview links?
Guardians can view their student’s Classwork page through direct “View in Classroom” links in the email summary. A teacher can also find the previewing link in their class settings and share this with a guardian.
Within the Classwork page, guardians can find assignment:
Titles
Details
Attachments (In some instances, an attachment cannot be previewed)
Due dates
Learn more about Google Classroom
Learn more about Google Classroom
Basic use of Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals - Includes some basic information on Google Classroom along with material on other Google products. This a prep course for the Google Educator Level 1 Certification exam.
Tips for Teachers
Tips for Teachers
You can use an iPad to draw or write on digital student work to provide feedback
You can use an iPad to draw or write on digital student work to provide feedback
See this Google support article for details.
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