Google Classroom Guardian Summaries

Trinity Catholic College uses Google Classroom for most classes as a classroom management tool. This allows staff to communicate with their class, share lessons and resources, set up and mark assignments. Guardian access is enabled for our Google classrooms. When a guardian accepts an invitation from a teacher, they get regular emails about their child’s work and classes. These email summaries include information about missing work – work not handed in when the summary was sent; upcoming work – work that’s due today and tomorrow (for those receiving daily emails), or that’s due in the upcoming week (for those receiving weekly emails). It also shows class activity – announcements, assignments, and questions recently posted by teachers. It just shows the stream and assignment dates. It doesn’t show all the work and resources listed in their Classwork tab.

The daily or weekly email summarises all their classrooms and looks similar to the one shown in the link below. Once an invite is accepted, all subjects with guardian summaries enabled are automatically included. You can then choose to receive daily or weekly updates in the settings. You can view a sample Classroom Guardian Summary here. 

Guardians must accept the invite to get this summary. To receive Classroom Summaries, you MUST have a Google account. If you don’t have a Google account and would like to receive these, you will need to set up a Google account, either by creating a new Gmail email address or linking your current email address to a Google account.

Next Friday (13 February), emails will be sent to parents/caregivers who are notice recipients in Helix, inviting them to receive Google Classroom Guardian Summaries for their child/children or student(s) in their care. If you are already receiving guardian summaries, you are unlikely to receive this email, but if you do, please ignore it. You can also ignore the invitation if this is not of interest to you.

If you would like to opt-out of receiving a Google Classroom Guardian Summary invite or if you currently receive Guardian Summaries and would like to opt out of receiving these for your child/children (or student(s) in your care), please complete the Google Form here.

If you are having issues or have a question, please email helpdesk@trinity.school.nz