Email All Your Parents at Once - Google Email Tip

Want to be able to email all of your students' parents at once?

Create an email list.

If you teach more than one class, you can have a separate group for each class.

Contact Beth - I can help you by gathering parent email addresses, typing them into your Contacts, and setting them up into groups.

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Or, here is how you can set up email groups yourself:

In your Google Email, click the drop-down menu next to "Mail" and choose Contacts.

Hover your mouse directly over this little line until it drops down for more choices. 

Scroll down and click on "New Group".

Enter a name for your email group and click "OK".

Your group has been created.  Now it needs email addresses.  To enter an email address, click on "New Contact".

Enter a name and email address.  Then click on the Groups button (looks like a 3-person party).  Choose which group(s) you would like this contact to be in.  Check the box, and click "Apply".

Repeat this until you have all the members of the group entered.  (If the email addresses are already in your contacts, find each contact and look for that same "party button" to add them to groups.)

Great!

Now how do I email this group?

Return to your email by clicking the drop-down menu next to "Contacts" and choosing "Mail".

Compose a new email, and choose "BCC".  This way, your parents cannot see one another's email addresses.

Begin typing in the name of the Group you created, and it will appear.  Choose that group, and type an email to them.