School supplied parent email addresses: Anyone doing it?
Currently all of our staff and students have webmail addresses supplied by the school. I often email parents with concerns about students but am sometimes frustrated that our system does not have up to date records of their email addresses.
I think that a school supplied address would make communication easier (especially if it came with easy to follow forwarding instructions)
It would also make it easier to join the parents up to our Moodle so that they can get an overview of what their kids are doing.
Teacher addresses are currently first_last@schoolname.edu.hk
Students are first_last@student.schoolname.edu.hk
Parents could be first_last@parent.schoolname.edu.hk but I am not sure about the ramifications of them having .edu email addresses, perhaps even a gmail etc address would be better eg first_last_schoolname@gmail.com
Is anyone doing this>? Any pitfalls or problems that anyone can see.?
I think that a school supplied address would make communication easier (especially if it came with easy to follow forwarding instructions)
It would also make it easier to join the parents up to our Moodle so that they can get an overview of what their kids are doing.
Teacher addresses are currently first_last@schoolname.edu.hk
Students are first_last@student.schoolname.edu.hk
Parents could be first_last@parent.schoolname.edu.hk but I am not sure about the ramifications of them having .edu email addresses, perhaps even a gmail etc address would be better eg first_last_schoolname@gmail.com
Is anyone doing this>? Any pitfalls or problems that anyone can see.?
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Permalink Reply by Eve Heaton on -
We don't supply email addresses at our school but I can see where that might be helpful. What I do is ask parents to sign in during our open houses at the beginning of the year with their email address and they check if they want to receive classroom updates. Those with emails opt to be put on the list those without obviously can't. I know our principal does something similar with a master list he has going for mass communications. He sends out something generally once a month or as events dictate.
Eve Heaton
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