Google Classroom Guardians allows teachers to invite parents or guardians to receive email summaries about their student’s progress in class. These summaries include information about missing and upcoming work, as well as announcements and other class activity.

Key Points for Teachers:

  • Enables communication: Guardians stay informed about their student’s work without needing direct access to Classroom.
  • Easy to set up: Teachers can invite guardians directly from their Classroom, and guardians simply accept the invitation via email.
  • Privacy focused: Summaries don’t include grades, and guardians can’t view students’ actual work.
  • Customisable: Teachers can choose whether to send daily or weekly summaries.
  • Promotes engagement: By keeping guardians in the loop, it can encourage more involvement in their student’s learning.

Overall, the Guardians feature is a useful tool for teachers to foster communication and collaboration with parents or guardians.

To add

Below are instructions on how to set this up.

Need any assistance, email helpdesk@barton.ac.uk

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Rubrics in Google Classroom
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Feedback
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I look forward to hearing how this beta works for you and your students.

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