Google Guardian

Google Guardian is a great way that you can help support your child's online learning. You will already have been sent an invitation to become a Google Guardian. If you haven't, please contact the school and provide them with an email address so we can set this up. Remember to look out for your Google Guardian invitation (check your spam folder)

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

As a guardian, you can get email summaries about your student’s activity in Classroom. Email summaries do not include grades. For grades, ask your student or contact the teacher.

In email summaries, you can review:

  • 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 activities—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers.

If there’s no activity to report or if a teacher turns off email notifications, you might not get an email summary.

Before you begin

You can get email summaries sent to any email address. However, to view or update email summary settings, you need a Google Account. With a Google Account, you can change the frequency of your emails, update your time zone, see the students connected to your account, and unsubscribe from email summaries.

If you unsubscribe from email summaries, you’re still connected to a student as long as you have a Google Account. Otherwise, unsubscribing removes you as a guardian.

You can only get summaries if your student is using Classroom with a G Suite account, which looks like gw00student_name@ab-ed.org. If you’re not sure, ask the teacher or school administrator.

Get email summaries

To get email summaries of your student’s work, you must accept an email invitation from a teacher or administrator. You have 120 days to accept an invitation before it expires. You can unsubscribe from summaries or remove yourself as a guardian at any time.

Before you begin please make sure the device you are using is not logged in with the pupil @ab-ed.org user and uninstall the Google Classroom App. To avoid issues we suggest you use a PC or laptop when accepting Guardian requests.

  1. The teacher or administrator emails you an invitation to join your student’s class. If you have missed this or need a new invitation please contact the school office.

  2. In your email program, open your email invitation.

  3. Click Accept.If you’re not the guardian, click I’m Not The Guardian.

  4. Click Accept to confirm.

  5. When you accept an invitation, you and your student get an email confirmation.

  6. Manage summaries

  7. To view or update your email summary settings

  8. Create a Google Account in the email summary to access summary settings

  9. Unsubscribe from email summaries

  10. Warning: If you don’t have a Google Account, this action removes you as a guardian from your student.

  11. You can unsubscribe from email summaries at any time. At the bottom of any email summary, click Unsubscribe.

  12. Remove yourself as a guardian

  13. You can remove yourself as a student's guardian at any time. If you want to remain a guardian, but not get the summaries, you can Unsubscribe from email summaries (details above).

  14. If you have a Google Account:

  15. At the bottom of any email summary, click Settings.

  16. Next to the student’s name, click Delete ____ Remove.

  17. If you don't have a Google Account:

  18. At the bottom of any email summary, click Unsubscribe.

  19. Click Unsubscribe to confirm.

  20. The student gets an email that you removed yourself from their account.