Google Guardian Summaries
What are Google Classroom Guardian Summaries?
A teacher can invite a guardian to receive email summaries about their student's work in class. To get summaries, the student must use Google Classroom. This feature is turned on by default at WHS.
Teachers can confirm that they have this feature turned on by going to Google Classroom > Settings> General> Guardian Summaries.
Once the feature is confirmed to be on, teachers can ensure the parent has provided an email by going to Google Classroom>People tab.
You will see a list of guardians. If you see (invited) next to the parent address, the parent has not yet accepted the invitation. If a student does not have an email noted under the Guardian column, you can manually add the guardian email and an invitation will be created, asking parent how often they want to receive summaries.
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.
Guardians who sign up for email summaries can’t see the Stream, Classwork, People, or Grades pages in Classroom.
How do guardians get summaries?
A teacher or admin sends an invitation to a guardian.
After a guardian accepts the invitation, they choose when to get email summaries for each of their students.
By default, email summaries for classes are turned off. If you’re a teacher, learn how to turn email summaries on.
Tip: All guardians are added to BCC when an email is sent to all guardians.
This is an example of what the Guardian Summary for a student with three classes might look like:
Guardian email summaries FAQ
This article is for guardians and teachers.
If you’re a guardian or educator, use the following information to help troubleshoot guardian email summaries.
For guardians...
Why haven't I received an email invitation?
I want guardian summaries sent to a different email address. Can I change the address?
How do I manage my guardian email settings?
How do I get email summaries of my student’s work?
My student uses Classroom with a personal Google Account. Can I get email summaries?
I’ve accepted the invitation. Where will the emails be sent?
Do I need a Gmail address or a Google Account?
Can I sign in to my student's classroom?
How do I stop getting summaries?
For educators...
Can I add guardians with a class code?
Can guardians view my class stream or student work?
Does the same guardian have to be invited for every class?
Why don’t I see the option to invite guardians?
Can our school or district add guardians in bulk?
What if I don't want my class to be included in guardian email summaries?