Google Classroom - Parent Portal?

[Devon Jacobs]

Hi Folks,

We are really pushing hard to get our teachers to use Google Classroom this coming year. Like most schools these days, one of our 'big deal' items is providing more communication to parents about what goes on in class, homework, and their child's academic performance. A while back I ran across the announcement that Google Classroom would be adding a "parent notification" feature in the fall, but my web research beyond that announcement yields results that are vague at best... Here's the post:

Google for Education: Giving thanks (and time back) to teachers with new updates to Google Classroom

I would love to use this as a 'hook' to garner even more buy-in from the staff. From the sounds of it, the parent notifications feature might reduce the teacher load surrounding constant updates (assuming they keep their Google Classes up to date), but I've found very little detail on how it would work, what info it would provide, or any kind of definitive date when we could expect to see it.

Does anyone out there have any info on this feature???

Thanks!

-Devon

[Leslie McCafferty]

Our teachers submitted feedback on Classroom and got the following message from Google:

Today, we’re announcing a new feature that will launch in time for back-to-school that will allow parents/guardians to receive updates on their student’s activity! You’re receiving this email because you previously submitted feedback requesting this feature. We heard you loud and clear.

Teachers will be able to invite parents and guardians to receive email notifications through Classroom. Parents and guardians will receive emails notifications regarding new posts (announcements, assignments, questions) to the class stream, completed work and many more. To stay updated on the launch of this new feature and others, please visit the What's New in Classroom.

[Bjorn Behrendt]

The feature was added last week, so there is very little information on it.   I did play with it some, and it looks like the teacher needs to manually add a parent email to the student.   Once that is done they will get an email with a listing of the assignments posted.   What I don't know and probably won't until we start this year, is weather a parent will get 8 emails if their student is signed up for 8 classes and they all choose to use the function.

Bjorn Behrendt M.Ed ~ Never Stop Learning

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[Devon Jacobs]

Hi Bjorn,

Actually Google answered my question for me by rolling it out here yesterday.

I got a chance to play with it this morning, and it appears that it sends out a single summary email for all classes that the student is enrolled where guardian notification is turned on.  That being said, the way guardians for each student are handled is a bit funky... any teacher can add or remove guardians for an individual student and they stay with (or are removed from) the student for ALL teachers and all classes. see my post in classroom help forum: https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/google-education/nTUpoyDEx6g/U0p9qY3nBgAJ

-Devon

On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 8:04:01 AM UTC-4, Bjorn Behrendt wrote:

The feature was added last week, so there is very little information on it.   I did play with it some, and it looks like the teacher needs to manually add a parent email to the student.   Once that is done they will get an email with a listing of the assignments posted.   What I don't know and probably won't until we start this year, is weather a parent will get 8 emails if their student is signed up for 8 classes and they all choose to use the function.

Bjorn Behrendt M.Ed ~ Never Stop Learning

   b...@edlisten.com | Blog: Edlisten.com

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 6:42 AM, Devon Jacobs <dja...@northcountryschool.org> wrote:

Hi Folks,

We are really pushing hard to get our teachers to use Google Classroom this coming year. Like most schools these days, one of our 'big deal' items is providing more communication to parents about what goes on in class, homework, and their child's academic performance. A while back I ran across the announcement that Google Classroom would be adding a "parent notification" feature in the fall, but my web research beyond that announcement yields results that are vague at best... Here's the post:

Google for Education: Giving thanks (and time back) to teachers with new updates to Google Classroom

I would love to use this as a 'hook' to garner even more buy-in from the staff. From the sounds of it, the parent notifications feature might reduce the teacher load surrounding constant updates (assuming they keep their Google Classes up to date), but I've found very little detail on how it would work, what info it would provide, or any kind of definitive date when we could expect to see it.

Does anyone out there have any info on this feature???

Thanks!

-Devon

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[Zee Poerio]

We are also pushing for more teachers to use Google Classroom.  We went 1:1 with Chromebooks for 8th grade.  We want to eliminate a paper planner, but the teachers still want the students to have the responsibility to write down assignments, and not all teachers will be posting assignments in Classroom at first. Does anyone know of a planner online that students can use?  We thought about making a Doc that looked like a planner page and students could copy and keep in a folder and make a new page each day.  We also thought about using Google Calendar, but the parents and students like to see the subjects listed...we found https://myhomeworkapp.com/ and mystudylife.com - it looks like the teachers still create the assignments.  Has anyone used these or implemented something with GAFE.  We are k-8 school.

THANKS.

Zee

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[Bjorn Behrendt]

Zee, why not have students use Tasks, that is built into Gmail?   Or google Keep?   Our school uses Google Classroom as the primary means for handing out assignments and it was the teachers that lead the adoption of it rather than a push from above. 

Bjorn Behrendt M.Ed ~ Never Stop Learning

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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Zee Poerio <zee.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are also pushing for more teachers to use Google Classroom.  We went 1:1 with Chromebooks for 8th grade.  We want to eliminate a paper planner, but the teachers still want the students to have the responsibility to write down assignments, and not all teachers will be posting assignments in Classroom at first. Does anyone know of a planner online that students can use?  We thought about making a Doc that looked like a planner page and students could copy and keep in a folder and make a new page each day.  We also thought about using Google Calendar, but the parents and students like to see the subjects listed...we found https://myhomeworkapp.com/ and mystudylife.com - it looks like the teachers still create the assignments.  Has anyone used these or implemented something with GAFE.  We are k-8 school.

THANKS.

Zee

[Zee Poerio]

Thanks.  I LOVE Google Keep ...students don't have Gmail...we are k-8 so gmail is turned off for students.  We wanted the students to take responsibility for the assingnments and not have teachers push out assignments...we did that with edmodo and it didn't work...Parents want the kids to have to write the assingments somewhere AND have the teachers post assisgnments on their websites so the parents can see what is going on and check to make sure their children are copying the assignments or listing what they need to do.  It's a little backwards, I know....I think they are still going to order PAPER planners!

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Bjorn Behrendt <b...@edlisten.com> wrote:

Zee, why not have students use Tasks, that is built into Gmail?   Or google Keep?   Our school uses Google Classroom as the primary means for handing out assignments and it was the teachers that lead the adoption of it rather than a push from above. 

Bjorn Behrendt M.Ed ~ Never Stop Learning

   b...@edlisten.com | Blog: Edlisten.com

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Zee Poerio <zee.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are also pushing for more teachers to use Google Classroom.  We went 1:1 with Chromebooks for 8th grade.  We want to eliminate a paper planner, but the teachers still want the students to have the responsibility to write down assignments, and not all teachers will be posting assignments in Classroom at first. Does anyone know of a planner online that students can use?  We thought about making a Doc that looked like a planner page and students could copy and keep in a folder and make a new page each day.  We also thought about using Google Calendar, but the parents and students like to see the subjects listed...we found https://myhomeworkapp.com/ and mystudylife.com - it looks like the teachers still create the assignments.  Has anyone used these or implemented something with GAFE.  We are k-8 school.

THANKS.

Zee