How do I email a MyWesttown Group Roster using my school email account?

The below instructions will guide you through the steps of configuring your Google Chrome settings to automatically open email links in Gmail. This will allow you to email your group roster in MyWesttown without the intermediary step of copying and pasting the recipient email list from MyWesttown into Gmail. These instructions assume that you are using a Chrome profile and signed into Chrome with your Westtown Account.

If you have any questions on the below process , please email helpdesk@westtown.edu, and our Technology Office will be glad to assist you.

Step 1 - Updating Chrome Settings

• Open Google Chrome
• Click three-dots icon (top-right) > Settings

• Click Privacy and security section (left-side menu) > Site Settings
• Click Additional permissions > Protocol handlers

• Make sure Sites can ask to handle protocols is selected. (Note: Protocol Handlers allow sites to handle special tasks when you click on certain types of links, like creating a new message in your email client or adding new events to your online calendar.)

• Open a new tab within Google Chrome and go to mail.google.com
• Within the address bar, click the Service handler icon (grey diamond icon) > Allow > Done

Step 2 - Send email from Roster page

• Log in to MyWesttown and Navigate to the Group that you would like to email
• Click Roster > Send Communication to > Students or Parents or All

• Click Open list in e-mail client