Google Classroom add students without invitation

[RoboOx]

When google classroom was first released it was possible to simply add student to your classroom and they wouldn't have the choice to decline the invitation or remove themselves from the classroom. However, this is no longer the case. The current behaviour is that students have to join the classroom by accepting an invitation. We are finding that some some special educational needs students who struggle with computer use find the invitation method difficult to use. We also find that some students will deliberately not accept invitations to classrooms. Can the previous behaviour at least be put back as an option so that teachers have the ability to simply add students to classrooms without having to go through the whole invitation process.

P.S. It looks like this is possible with GAM, so it seems the underlying code is already there in classroom, it's just that there is no GUI interface for a teacher to be able to do it.

[christiannewman]

@RoboOx Aside from GAM (command-line interface for interacting with the Classroom API), you can use the Google Sheets add-on (GUI interface) Classright to add students directly to classes, sans-invitation.

[RoboOx]

@christiannewman Thanks for suggesting Classright. It is something I didn't know about.

However, although it does have useful features, it still cannot force add students to a classroom when run from a teacher's access level (it throws and "API call to classroom.courses.students.create failed with error: The caller does not have permission" error). Even Classright's help pages say that to do this you have to be a "Google Workspace Administrator".

I'm looking for the situation where teachers can force add students to their own google classrooms themselves without admin intervention.

[christiannewman]

Correct, only admins can add students directly to classes.