Many schools use Google Apps for Education. One great feature of GAFE is the Groups functionality. We use this to create many different groups (sports teams, grade levels, etc.). We like these because it enables teachers to write an email to an entire group. However, these groups have to be maintained separately from Whipple Hill.

We have not used the group communication tools in Whipple Hill because all of our constituents prefer to access their communication through their email. They do not want to have to log into the website to read notifications, nor do teachers want to have to consider whether they should send a message through their email or through the website.

One solution to this would be to allow WH to manage Google Groups for GAFE customers. Google provides the Admin SDK, through which you can manage group membership. This would allow us to maintain accurate Google Groups and actually get some value out of the WH groups.