Inviting Guardians into Google Classroom

We will be using the "Invite Guardians" feature on Google Classroom this year.  Google Classroom is going to be one tool that teachers can use to communicate with families what is going on in the classroom.

At the start of the year or semester, teachers need to invite guardians into their Google Classrooms.  It is very simple to do this.

1. In your Google Classroom, click on the Students Tab.
2. On the left side click the button under "Include this class in guardian email summaries" to turn this feature on.
3. By the students name, click on Invite Guardians.
4. You will enter in the guardian's email here.  The easiest way to do this is to find the student in your Skyward Gradebook.  In the student's profile, emails for guardians will be listed.  Copy this email and paste it in Google Classroom.
   ** If an email already appears in Google Classroom and you did not enter it, another teacher already invited this guardian through their Google Classroom.  Guardians will receive only 1 invite, but be able to see information for all the Google Classrooms that their students are a part of.
5. Then click on Invite.
6. Continue this process to add more than one guardian email to each student and/or to continue adding guardian emails for the rest of your class.

Here is a video that also walks you through the process.

Here is an example of what the email that guardians will be receiving looks like.  Guardians will have the option to see daily or weekly summaries or to opt out of them.  Here is an example of what a daily summary looks like.

From classroom, if (invited) appears after the email, the guardian has not responded to the request.  If a guardian chooses to not receive summaries, their email will disappear from the students tab.