Parent Accounts Now Available
Parent Accounts are now available on Edmodo. With Parent Accounts, teachers can:
- Exchange messages and maintain open-communication with parents.
- Provide direct access to grades and assignments.
- Send notifications to parents about upcoming due dates and missed assignments.
- Alert families to school events and activities.
Registering parents is similar to student registration, with one additional security measure – each family will need their own unique parent code to register. This is to ensure that parents can only interact with you and with their child.
To get started:
- Login to edmodo.com.
- Hover your cursor over your Class group until the menu appears, then select Members to open your class.
- Select the Parent Code icon for any of your students on the right side of the page.
- Select Download All. This will download an excel spreadsheet of all of the parent codes for your class.
- Parent Accounts Email: Send an email to parents with details on how to get started. We’ve provided some sample text to help you get started.
The Parent Account User Guide provides further information on Parent Accounts and we recommend that you direct parents to the resources on Help.Edmodo.com for more information on how to use the service.
We are looking forward to finding new ways to engage parents in classroom activities through Edmodo Parent Accounts – I hope you enjoy this new feature!
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Thank you ! I have been looking for this feature since I believe the home school connection is vital to student success. You are the most responsive support group I have ever had the pleasure to work with.
What a great new feature. I think EDMODO is very forward thinking and responsive to the needs of the critical members of the educational circle
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I would like for parents to be able to receive text or e-mail messages when I send an alert. Will this be an added feature in the future?
You can do this,…… The only thing is that it appears as if you have to add them in individually by name once they join. I wonder if there is a way to set them as a group as well or not?????? Either way you can send them private msgs, or group msgs, but you have to do it one parent at a time which can take a while. If anyone knows how to make it faster let us know.
I want them to be able to see the alerts I send, not just general messages. Sometimes I send alerts to remind students of tests or quizzes. I want parents to be able to see these, too. Right now, they can only receive text messages with assignments, direct messages, and replies.
I played with this as a sample parent to see what they saw online..Any ideas how I erase this ‘parent’?
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where do I get a parent code ?
Looking forward to seeing how this will help get parents involved. Thank you, Edmodo.
Thanks for this new feature. I’m excited to introduce this to parents, and how this will impact learning and communication.
I think this is a great feature and will add a lot of ease of connection for missing HW, etc. My concern is that it basically sets up two email accounts that you have to constantly monitor which can be overwhelmingly time consuming. I hope they will add a parent only (or at least the choice to choose a parent only) checkbox that will send all direct messages from parents to a specified school email account.
That would be a great feature and would integrate Edmodo into school email systems, rather than try to completely replace them, which is a very tall order.
What do others think about this?
As a high school teacher using Edmodo, I have concerns about the way that parent codes provide parents with access to all subjects their child is enrolled in. My school would be much more willing to adopt parent codes if they were subject-specific.
Are there any plans for Edmodo to take this step?
Hate to be a bummer… but i’ve been in 5 school districts that have all had this feature via online gradebook software and online calendars and email. This feature is really un-needed and behind its time.
I’d much rather look for more forward thinking integration that actually beats the curve instead of hanging behind it. Such as an edmodo widget that integrates into class websites (i.e. google sites) or application for web browsers like chrome and firefox?
I was given a parent code by my school and just signed up for a parent account. I am now the proud father of a boy I never met in North Carolina, with no idea how to change or close my account.
This website saves me
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