About Groups

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)
• parent-created bespoke interest groups

Whenever you post any content (or send an announcement or create an event) you can select which group your message is addressed to.

Find out about joining, creating and managing groups. 

Your Groups 

Click on the 'my groups' tab on the home page to view your list of groups. You will see a different set of groups to other members, because the list is personalised according to which ones you belong to. The groups at the top of the list have had the most recent activity and the ones further down will contain older content.

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).

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.

Parent Interest Groups

Parent interest groups are created by parents (or admins with access to the parent side) rather than being automatically generated. They can be either:

• open - anyone can join
• closed - parents have to send a request to join and be approved by the group owner.

Groups may be created for all sorts of purposes, from music clubs or sports teams, to social groups such as book clubs or regular pub quiz teams. Click here for more information on setting up and managing groups.

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.

NB: for ambassadors, the Groups page in admin mode is only for monitoring content. If you need to change the name/membership of a school group you need to be in the School Structure page in admin mode. Parent interest groups can be viewed and deleted on the admin side but name/membership changes will need to be done on the parent side. For closed groups this will need to be done by the group owner.