Teacher Setup and Guardian Access for Google Classroom
About Guardian Email Summaries.
You can only add guardians for students using Classroom with a G Suite account. For details, see About Classroom user accounts.
When guardians join Classroom, they receive regular, automatic email summaries for each of their students. Guardians choose the frequency of the emails—daily or weekly—and can unsubscribe at any time.
Guardian email summaries include:
- Missing work—Work that’s late at the time the email was sent
- Upcoming work—Work that’s due today and tomorrow (for daily emails) or work that’s due in the upcoming week (for weekly emails)
- Class activity—Announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers
By default, email summaries for your classes are turned off. Learn how to turn on and manage guardian email summaries for your class. Guardians can’t access Classroom or view your class stream.
Turning on Guardian Access in Google Classroom.
- Go to your Google Classroom.
- Select a “Class”.
- Click on the “Settings” icon.
- Scroll down to the “General” section.
- Toggle the “Guardian Summaries” button.
- Specify whether you want this setting for all “Classes”
- Click the “Save” button in the top right corner.
How Can I Invite A Parent?
- Click “People” in the menu area at the top.
- Next to the student click “Invite Guardians”.
- Type guardian's email address into the text box. (there is no way to bulk edit guardian emails. Also, you can add additional parent/guardians)
- Click “Invite”.
Emailing Guardians.
- At the top menu bar while in a “Class”, click the “People” tab.
- Next to the student’s name, click “More (the three dots)”
- (Optional) To email all guardians in a class, at the top of the “Students” section, click “Email All Guardians”.
What Can Parents Expect?
Here's a sample guardian email summary:
Problems or issues?
Please contact Omari Thomas (othomas@usd116.org) our Innovative Technology Specialist for prompt troubleshooting service.