The Groups system allows parents on Classlist to communicate with a different audience for each message, comment or invitation they want to share. There are two types of groups:
- automatically-populated school groups (year/class/reps)
- bespoke parent interest groups.
Whenever you post any content (or send an announcement or create a community event etc) you can select which group your message is addressed to.
NB: Staff+, Ambassadors, Class Reps and Community Reps - take a look at our article on understanding groups for admins which goes into a little more detail.
Find out about joining, creating and managing groups.
In this article
School groups
Parent Interest groups
Ambassadors & Reps group
Sharing a group
Your group
Benefits of Groups
School groups (years and classes)
These are automatically generated by the system, based on which year and class your child is assigned to. Parents with multiple children will be in multiple School Groups. Admins will move you up each year but if you think you are in the wrong group (other than at year end) you can change your child's year and class in your Profile.
You will only see the class/year school groups which your children belong to. If you have a younger sibling joining after you are already a member you will need to add them to your profile to be able to see their year/class groups (unless your school has integrated their parent database with Classlist).
Parent Interest Groups
Parent interest groups can be created by parents and admins on the parent side rather than being automatically generated. Staff Admins can also do this on the admin side eg for a school trip, but must assign a group owner who has access to the parent side.
They can be either:
- open - anyone can join
- closed parents wanting to join have to be approved by the group's owner
The group owner can change the status of a group from open to closed or vice versa if they need to.
Parents can create groups themselves and add individual parents or classes. This allows parents to communicate around a shared interest even if their children are in different School Groups.
Parent Interest Groups may be created for all sorts of purposes, eg music clubs, sports teams, social groups, book clubs, pub quiz teams or school trips.
Group owners, Ambassadors and Staff Admin Plus users can add, approve or remove members or delete the group. Click here for more information on managing groups.
The names of all parent groups can be seen by any parent, whether they are open or closed groups. This is because they are for community building as such the title should not need to be secret!
Ambassadors & Reps Group
All Admin members are automatically placed in the Ambassadors and Reps Group: if you do not have an admin account you will not see this group. Therefore if you were an admin but no longer have admin status you will automatically be removed from the Ambassadors and Reps group.
Sharing a group
You can share a link to a group to promote it and get people to join, or you can add members manually.
Desktop - To share a link, take the url from the parent side on desktop. You can get to it by opening the group and clicking the 3 dots menu at the top right and selecting 'group info'. The url should be in the format https://app.classlist.com/parent/#/groups/view/??? with a list of numbers at the end. This can be pasted into a post so parents can easily see it and join.
Mobile - we will be adding a share button - coming soon.
Your Groups
The 'my groups' tab on the parent side (top of the home page) will show you a list of your groups. You will see a different set of groups to other members, because the list is personalised according to which ones you belong to. Groups are listed in order of latest activity.
You will see both the class and year school groups which your children belong to as well as any parent interest groups that you have been added to or signed up to.
Benefits of the Groups feature
The Groups feature means you can post things which are only applicable to that particular group, without bothering the parents in the rest of the school (ie in the example below, the homework is only relevant to parents with children in class 11SS). No more endless notifications about stuff you are not interested in!
You can also see more information about the group and find out who else is a member or who the group owners are.
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