During a workshop at Metcalf Wednesday, several teachers asked about the best way to email parents. Some teachers were under the impression that they had to establish custom email lists through an awkward copy and paste into the school's email system. Not so! Parent and contact information is already entered into Aspen by administration so you can easily email parents directly through Aspen. Emailing parents through Aspen means you don't have to collect information from parents, distribute special codes for a learning management system, or ask parents to take on another username and password. Parents do not even have to login to or use their Aspen account to receive email from you. In a few clicks, you can send information to the contacts for every student in a class. The embedded video provides a brief overview of the process.
UPDATE, 3/12/2015
Colleagues asked how to send email to contacts and teachers of just a few students in the class. The images below should illustrate the process.
Update, 8/2018
Aspen's bulk email system has been blocked by aol, verizon, and yahoo mail systems from time to time as recently as the 2017-2018 academic year. If you're going to use Aspen's bulk emailer, you should enlist the help of parents with yahoo, aol, and verizon email addresses to vet its functionality.Your mileage may vary.
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