Invite Students to a Class (For Teachers)

To enroll students in your class, you can send them an email invite or share the class code.

• Email invite—After you send the invite, students can click Join in the email or on the class card.

• Class code—After you share the code, students enter it in Classroom to join your class.

If students have trouble with a class code, you can reset it, or send them an email invite instead.

Note: Students can unenroll themselves from classes. If they unenroll, their grades are removed.

Send an email invite

You can send an email invite to individual students or to a group of students.

1. Go to classroom.google.com.

2. Click the class you want to invite students to.

3. At the top, click People and then Invite students.

4. Enter the email address of a student or group. As you enter text, an autocomplete list might appear under Search Results.

5. (Optional) Under Search results, click a student or a group.

6. (Optional) To invite more students or groups, repeat steps 4 and 5.

7. Click Invite.

Note: If you have trouble adding an email address, it might be outside of your school’s domain.

After you send the invite:

• Your class list updates to show the names of invited students.

• Your students can click Join in the email or on their class card.

Share the class code

Each class you create has a class code. You share the code with students so they can join your class. To share the code, paste it into a message, display it with a projector, or write it on the board.

1. Go to classroom.google.com.

2. Click the class and then Settings.

3. (Optional) To copy the code so you can paste it into a message, under General, next to the code, click the Down arrow and then Copy.

4. (Optional) To display the code with a projector, under General, next to the code, click the Down arrow and then Display. To get a larger view of the code, click Full screen.

Note: You can quickly display the code from the Stream page. Under the class name, next to the code, click Full screen . For a larger view, click Full screen again.

5. Give the students these instructions:

• Go to classroom.google.com.

• On the Classes page, click Add Join class.

• Enter the code and click Join.