Groups

A teacher is missing from a Google Classroom (or no classroom was created for them) 8 min read Typical reports: "Not all of my classes are showing in Google Classroom." A co-teacher, cover teacher or head of department can't see a class. No Google Classroom was created for a class at all. A class shows an unknown... Add a teacher to a Google Classroom — one class or many 5 min read There are lots of reasons to put another teacher into a class's Google Classroom: covering a staff absence, sharing a class, or giving a head of department access to every class in their subject. In Realsmart you don't a... Add a user to a group 6 min read Add an individual person to an existing group. Group memberships control access in Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and other connected platforms. Before you start You must be an admin with the Manage users & groups perm... Bulk actions on groups 8 min read The Groups page has its own bulk-action bar — separate from (and larger than) the Add to group action on the Users page. Use this when you want to act on the groups themselves: change their status or settings, merge memb... Bulk add users to a group 3 min read Add many users to a group at once using the Add to group bulk action on the Users page. This is one of two places you can bulk-add group memberships. This page covers starting from Users — filter down to a set of people,... Create a Google Classroom for any group (a bespoke or combined class) 7 min read Your MIS classes get their Google Classrooms automatically. For anything else — an intervention or revision group, a club, an option taught across two sets, or every Year 7 English set combined into one — create a group... Create a group 5 min read Add a new group (cohort or teaching set) to the current school. Once created, you can add members to it and it will sync to connected platforms. Before you start You must be an admin with the Manage users & groups permis... Edit a group — name, status, settings, or delete it 5 min read Everything about the group itself — its name, status, main teacher and platform settings — is on the Details tab of the group's page. People are on the Members tab; see Add a user to a group. Before you start You must be... Filter and search groups 4 min read The Groups page has filtering and sorting so you can find the groups you need without scrolling a long list. It also answers the question from the other direction — which groups is this person in? Before you start You mu... Find and link a group's Google Classroom 13 min read Each group has one Google Classroom at a time, and Realsmart keeps it in step — students in, work kept, handled at end of term. Each new school year the group gets a fresh classroom, and last year's is kept with its work... Group membership options — lock, Classroom, Google role 6 min read A group's page has five tabs: Details (name, status, main teacher and platform settings — see Edit a group), Members, Cloud (only when your school syncs to Google or Microsoft Entra — see See who is actually in the group... My cohorts — the groups you belong to 3 min read My cohorts is a personal page for teachers (mentors) and pupils: it shows who you are in Realsmart and the groups you belong to, and — where your school switches it on — your timetable. It only shows your own information... Put a group inside another group 7 min read A group can contain other groups, not just people. Everyone in the inner group is treated as being in the outer group too — and it stays that way as the inner group changes. This is the difference between a live link and... Remove a user from a group 3 min read You can remove a person from a group either from the group's Members tab or from the user's own edit page. Before you start You must be an admin with the Manage users & groups permission for the current school. Method 1... See who is actually in the group on Google or Entra 7 min read The Members tab shows who should be in a group. The Cloud tab shows who Realsmart last recorded in the real group on your connected platform, compares the two, and explains each difference where it can — useful when a me... Why does someone keep being taken out of a Google group or classroom? 4 min read The sync keeps every Google group and Google Classroom in line with its group in Realsmart. If someone keeps disappearing from one, the sync is usually doing just that: in Realsmart, they aren't in the group that the Goo...