Members of your school may send emails through SchoolSpeak. Emails may be sent to entire groups, specific members, or even specific types of members in a group (for example parents of a classroom). You may attach files to emails sent through SchoolSpeak including documents, PDF and a variety of other kinds of files. It is suggested that you try to use a PDF format to prevent changes by the recipients. Your account administrators will determine who may send an email using the SchoolSpeak interface. Please contact your school's SchoolSpeak administrator if you have any questions or need access to email groups within SchoolSpeak.

By default, Account and group administrators may send emails through SchoolSpeak. Account Admins and group administrators may provide additional members of a group with the ability to send an email by adding the members to the Email permission in the Group Admin Settings. Additionally, account administrators may allow specific members with the ability to email all within the account configuration settings.

To send an email:

  1. From your home page, click on the  (email icon) in the top right navigation bar.
  2. If you are using SchoolSpeak's email for the first time, please review the Email Terms and conditions and click the appropriate response.
  3. Click I Agree. The email page is displayed. 
  4. Identify the recipients.
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  6.  You may manually enter the email addresses or click To or Select Recipients to pick groups and/or members to add.
    When sending an email in SchoolSpeak the sender may opt to send an email to groups or individuals.  For emailing groups, select the group and (optional) select the member type. This will limit the recipients to only those with the selected member type(s). Once selected, click to Add to To, CC, or BCC as needed. For emailing individuals, first select the group using the left side drop down. The drop down for 'Select Members' will only show members of the selected group. Click the name or multiple names to select, then click to Add to To, CC, or BCC.
  7. Once the To, CC, and BCC boxes are filled as needed, click 'Back to Email'
  8.  Type the email subject
  9. Complete the message as appropriate
  10. Add attachments if appropriate (optional)
    Click Preview to view the email before sending

To add attachments:

  1. Click Attachments. 
  2. Click Select File
  3. Choose the file from your computer and click to Upload
  4. Draft the message.
  5. Preview is desired and Click to Send.

Sending an email on behalf of another person

Administrators may send an email on behalf of another person in SchoolSpeak, responses to that email will be sent to the designated person. This allows the school to protect the privacy of other members by not sharing email addresses. Responses to the email will be sent to person it was sent on behalf of.

Adding a signature

SchoolSpeak members that send emails may also create a signature to include within the email allowing you to customize the message that is being sent to the recipient. Click Signature at the bottom of the email composition page to add a signature.