Send Class Notifications

Note: If you have not entered an email address in GradeBook, or if you set up an email address that is not a district-supplied email address, you must update your email address prior to using class notifications.

From the Class Dashboard, you can send emails to students, parents, or students and parents who have registered an email address in ParentAccess.

1.On the Class Dashboard, below Classroom Administration, click Class Notifications.

2.On the Class Notifications screen, in the Message intended for drop-down list, select Students, Parents, or Students and Parents.

Note: A student’s name only appears in the Select Message Recipients field if the student or the student’s parent have entered an email address in ParentAccess.

3.In the Select Message Recipients field, select the student(s) for whom you want to send an email, and then click .

The name(s) display in the box on the right side of the screen.

Note: On the Class Notifications screen, students display in the order you selected on the Class Roster screen. If you hid a student on the Class Roster screen, the Class Notifications screen hides the student.

Note: If you want to select all students, click . To remove a student, click , or to remove all students, click .

4.In the Subject field, enter the subject of the email.

5.In the Message field, enter the email message.

Spell check automatically alerts you of spelling errors as you type.

6.(Optional) Use the built-in text editor to format your message as desired.

7.Click Send Email.

The notification message is sent to you, and a bcc (blind carbon copy) is sent to each of the message recipients that you selected.