Contact Groups - Gmail

Create a contact group in Gmail to easily send out emails and share google docs to groups of people.

Create a contact group:

1. On the top left of your email screen click the word Mail and change it to Contacts.
2. Under Contacts you find New Group.
3. Give the group a name.
4. The group is then listed under Contacts, click the group.
5. Click the Add People Button. 
6. Type or paste email addresses.  (Use a comma or semicolon to separate emails.)
7. Click Add.

When composing an email, simply start typing the name of your group in the To: field!

Get a list of parent/student emails from PowerTeacher to copy and paste into a Group:

1. Sign into PowerTeacher.
2. Click the Backpack next to the class you want to create a group for.
3. Click Email Addresses in the top left corner of the screen.
4. Select the students/parents.
5. Click Build List. (You can leave the delimiter type set to Existing.)
6. Copy the list from the box.
7. Find/Create the group you want to add the list to in your Contacts (See above).
8. Click the Add People Button. 
9. Ctrl+V  to paste the email addresses. 
10. Click Add.

For more detailed directions on how to group and sort contacts please visit Google's Gmail Support