Class Rosters for Instructors


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Starting with summer 2020 classes, instructors use Google Groups to manage class email lists. The process for requesting a new class email list through SPIRE will not change. Log in with your NetID and password at groups.google.com to manage your class lists.
Google Groups documentation & support articles


Essential information

View a Class Roster

Work with a class roster

Class information

The top of the Class Roster page displays some identifying information for the class.

Meeting information

The Meeting Information section displays information about the class meeting times, location, and other information as applicable. Click the green arrow if you want to collapse this section and hide it from view. Once the section is hidden, click the green arrow if you want to expand the section and display the meeting information.

Enrollment information

The class capacity and number of students enrolled, dropped, and waiting (if any) display.

Use the Enrollment Status drop-down list to change whether the class roster shows enrolled, dropped, waiting (if any), or all students.

Select display option

The default display option for class rosters is Hide Photos; with this selection, the roster does not show student photos. Select the display option Show Photos to see student photos included in the class roster. If the selection options are grayed out and not clickable, complete the Security Certificate for Instructors to get access to photo rosters. Learn more about the Security Certificate for Instructors and Photo Rosters.

Download the class roster to Excel

To download a copy of the class roster as an Excel file, click the download icon to the right of the class roster table heading in the blue bar. For the download to work, your browser security settings must allow file downloads for SPIRE. Check with your department UMass Amherst IT contact or use your browser Help index to find out how to adjust browser security settings to allow downloads for specific websites if you want to use this feature.

Alternately, use the Download Class Rosters page to download class rosters for use with Excel. From the SPIRE Menu, navigate to Faculty Home > Download Class Rosters. See Download Class Rosters as Excel Files.

Student details

The Enrolled Students table lists the students alphabetically by last name. Details for each student include:

Print roster

At the bottom of the Class Roster page, click the Printer Friendly Version link to open a window with a version of the class roster formatted for printing.

Communicate with students in a class

To communicate with your students, you can: