Chapter 8: Keeping Parents in the Loop

Google Classroom shines when it comes to organizing information between the teacher and students. However, parents and guardians are important stakeholders in this communication too. Google Classroom can send email summaries to parents invited as guardians within Google Classroom. This method must be enabled by the school or district's IT department. If your school or district uses another method of communication with parents, they may leave this feature disabled because of its inherent security risks. (For example, my current school employer disabled Google Classroom's guardian emails so that emails can undergo a verification process within an in-house system.)

If your school does not allow guardian emails, by using Google Calendar, you are still able to inform guardians about important due dates from Google Classroom. Back in Chapter 1, Getting to Know Google Classroom, I mentioned that each class created in Google Classroom has...