How to Get Help with Email Groups (Google Groups)

Google Groups are commonly used here at Barrington 220 to communicate amongst staff members. Each year we receive a number of questions concerning Google Groups and how to get included in or make changes to a specific group.

Your initial point of contact for additions and changes to a group should be your building administrative assistants in the main office at each building. Each building has an administrative assistant who is responsible for maintaining the “All Staff” Google Group, as well as any other Google Groups that your school building may be using. For district-level Google Groups such as “BSD First Grade Teachers” or “BSD Special Services,” please contact a Barrington 220 Administrative Center Admin Assistant within that department. These staff members will gladly help you.

Please also note that we use some automated tools to ease the burden of Google Group administration. When a new teacher is hired, they automatically become a member of the “All Staff” Google Group for their primary school location, which then places them on the “All District Staff” Google Group. There are a few other groups that we are able to automatically populate, but the rest of the Google Groups require some manual attention.