Google Groups: Email Lists at Carleton

Manually Managed Google Groups

Carleton uses Google Groups to create and manage email lists. 

Create a group (click to show/hide):
  1. Go to groups.google.com and log in with your Carleton email address
  2. Follow Google's instructions on creating a new Google Group
  3. Add people to your group
NOTE: By default, Groups at Carleton have an email address in the form [Group Name].group@carleton.edu. For example: carlslist.group@carleton.edu. If you need to remove the .group from the email address, please submit a Group request ticket.
Join an existing group (click to show/hide):
  1. Go to groups.google.com and log in with your Carleton email address
  2. Search for groups at the top of the page, or click on All Groups on the left to browse the publicly viewable Groups at Carleton
  3. Follow Google's instructions on joining a Group
Unsubscribe from a group (click to show/hide):
  1. Go to groups.google.com and log in with your Carleton email address
  2. Search for groups at the top of the page, or click on All Groups on the left to browse the publicly viewable Groups at Carleton
  3. Follow Google's instructions for unsubscribing from a Group

Automated Groups

There are several automated groups at Carleton that add people automatically to the group based on automated criteria. If you leave these groups, you will be re-added each night when the automation scripts adjust group membership.

Class email lists (click to show/hide):

While Moodle has very good built-in messaging functions for your course, and Workday has a feature that allows you to email students on your roster(s), sometimes an email list is also useful. Faculty may request an email list for courses they are teaching. To request a course email list:

  1. Log into Faculty Self-Service (link opens in a new tab)
  2. Select the course for which you would like to request an email group
  3. Select the services you would like made available for that course

Anyone who is in your Moodle course (as a student, a TA, etc) will be included in your automated group. To add members to your automated group, add them to Moodle and then wait for that information to move into your automated group.

  • New enrollments from Workday sync to Moodle overnight each night.
  • Manual adjustments to the membership or roles in your Moodle course can take a couple of hours to sync to your Google Group.
Other automated groups (click to show/hide):

If you wish to request an automated group that is not course-related, please submit a Group Request Ticket.

To manage membership, please see our guide on using Grouper to manage automated google group membership.

 

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