Your Google Account (and some email basics)

Reply All sends your message to everyone included in the original email including recipients listed as ‘cc’. This is useful when your response is relevant to everyone on the email thread, such as confirming attendance for a meeting or sharing important information. Be mindful of using Reply All as it can sometimes lead to unnecessary email traffic.

BCC is a way to send a copy of an email to additional recipients without the other recipients knowing their email addresses. This is different from CC (Carbon Copy) where everyone can see all recipient emails. BCC is useful when you want to keep a list of recipients private, such as when sending a group email to students or parents. It also helps prevent long email chains by reducing the number of people who can reply to everyone. Use BCC carefully to maintain privacy and avoid misunderstandings.

The district maintains a number of high level Google Groups designed to make it easier for staff to email specific groups of users without entering all of the email addresses. While the permissions on many of these groups allow anyone in the district to email them, you should be very cautious of when you do and what information you are sending.