Quickly creating Contact groups of students - Directory Autocomplete?

[Tyler Loch]

Gmail and Google Drive will happily autocomplete email addresses from the entire GAFE account directory when composing an email or sharing a document.

But as far as I can tell, Google Contacts will only autocomplete from existing contacts when creating a group.

Is there a way our teachers can quickly and easily create Contact groups from scratch without flipping through the Directory page-by-page, typing full email addresses for every student, or constructing CSV files?

Thanks for any insight…

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Tyler Loch, Network & Systems Specialist

Community Consolidated School District 21 - Wheeling, Illinois, USA

[Jesse Thorstad]

You can do this using Google Groups, not contact groups.

If the Groups service is on for teachers, they can create groups. As they type in student names, they will autocomplete as they type. If you have your roster beside you, you can create a classroom group in a couple of minutes!

Jesse Thorstad
Technology Specialist
Fergus Falls (MN) Public Schools
http://www.isd544.org
218-998-0544  x2036

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[Tyler Loch]

That's more for mailing lists (like this one), isn't it?

The main goal is to be able to quickly share a file to a class (with or without edit rights) so students with Chromebooks can access it immediately.

847.520.6283

http://www.ccsd21.org

[Jesse Thorstad]

They are also used for sharing files...

Jesse Thorstad
Technology Specialist
Fergus Falls (MN) Public Schools
http://www.isd544.org
218-998-0544  x2036

[Kyle Brumbaugh]

The other way I have seen this done is to create a form that requires that the person is logged into a domain account to access the form and it will capture the user name.

Kyle Brumbaugh