Educators often don’t want their students to use their own email address for creating online accounts.
Unfortunately unique email addresses are important for password resets and deleting blogs.
The gmail+ method provides the solution! How it works is you create one gmail account for your class.
For example, mathiscool@gmail.com or room16@gmail.com.
Then you use your one class gmail account with the gmail+ method to create each student account.
Gmail ignores any letters and numbers you add after a + sign and sends all emails to the one account while our system thinks each is a unique email.
So for example, you might use room16+emmasblp16@gmail.com, room16+liamwblp16@gmail.com and so on for creating their usernames and gmail will send all emails to the class gmail account room16@gmail.com
Here’s an example of using the gmail+ method to create student blogs
Please Note:
- You must use a real gmail account– either use your own gmail account or set up a gmail account for your class e.g. room16@gmail.com.
- This also means that if you want to moderate comments on student posts they will be sent to your class email address.
- Also all password resets will be sent to your class email address
Here’s how to:
