Welcome to the Teacher Help Section for Gaggle.

Administrator's Guide

If you would like to see detailed information about setting up and using the Gaggle email service you may download an Adobe Acrobat version of the Administrator's Guide.

Download the newest version of the Administrator's Guide.

Quick Start Guides

The Teacher Quick Start Guide offers two handouts that explain how teachers and students can quickly get started using Gaggle.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Teacher's Frequently Asked Questions is a great place to learn more about using the Gaggle system.

Importing Student Lists / Student Setup Program

If you have a large list of students to set up, you may want to download the Student Setup Program.

This program takes a list of student names and creates the text necessary to import users. It creates a user name based upon the student name and creates a random password. The formated text can then be used to quickly import new users.

Download the Macintosh version of the Student Set Up program.
Download the Windows version of the Student Set Up program.

Download a Login page

This is a login page that you can put on your own web site. You can customize it with your school's logo or a special message.

Download the Macintosh version of the login page.
Download the Windows version of the login page.

If you have a Custom Domain or Sub Domain name these login screens can be changed so that users can sign in with just their user name. They would not need to enter their full email address. It is very simple to customize. The download contains all of the necessary instructions.

How do I setup Gaggle as a portal for logins to other systems?

Portal links are links in the Jump To Menu that allow users to click out into other systems that their school or district might have access to. These links only show up if configured by a School Admin or higher. Additional information can be added to each link to identify or login users to the particular system the link points to. In this way the Gaggle portal feature is like a simple Single Sign-on feature.

To learn more about Portal links down load the Portal Links How-To document.

Student Online Safety Pledge

This is a sample document that can be downloaded and used as a Student Online Safety Pledge. The file is in Rich Text Format (RTF). It will open with any word processing program such as Microsoft Word, AppleWorks, Corel or Star Office. We also have a Spanish version of the Online Safety Pledge.

Single Sign-on to Gaggle from Other Systems

Your IT department can setup signle sign-on to Gaggle from other systems such as Edline, SchoolFusion or other portals. Please contact us for assistance.

General suggestions

Here are some General Suggestions that will make using Gaggle more effective for your school.

Are you a Trainer or Workshop leader?

We want to support the people who train teachers in the use technology. If you are doing a workshop which covers the subject of email, we would like to help.

Check out our Resources for Workshop Leaders & Trainers