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If you are using Google Classroom quite a bit for your students, it is worth taking the time to add the Guardian accounts as a way to communicate home with students.  An important piece worth noting - when you add the Guardians, it ties that email to the student's account NOT your Classroom.  This means if two teachers have the same students only one of them has to add the guardian and it is available for both Classrooms. If you have this feature turned on, parents/guardians that have their email tied to the students can opt to receive an email daily or weekly with missing work, upcoming work that is due, and general information about happenings that week.  They cannot see student work from it.  Important to note - they can be signed up with ANY email (they do not have to have a Gmail account). How to enable and set up Guardian accounts: When in your Classroom, click on the People tab - Click on Invite guardian next the student's name - Start typing in...

One of the best new(er) features of Google Classroom is the ability to share a student's work/assignments with guardians/parents.  A couple things to understand about guardian accounts: Guardian accounts are tied to the student accounts - so if one teacher adds the guardian, it is automatically available to other teachers that turn on this feature in their class Guardians cannot actually see inside the class - this would violate FERPA.  They get a summary email with information only about their own student. In order to turn this feature on within your Class, you need to click on the Students tab at the top.  You will then see the option on the left side of the screen - there is a toggle button to slide in order to enable this feature: When you toggle it, you will see the following screen which gives you the option to turn it on in just this class or in all your classes: One you add the guardian access to the class, your students will be listed with the option ...