email accounts for children under 13

DellaRobertson

I received an email from a parent stating that her child cannot get a gmail account because she is under 13.  I need students to have emails so I can invite them to the ArcGIS Online Organization.  The parent asked if her child could use her account.  I wrote her that I would ask colleagues about this.

I thought they could use their google school accounts, but they are restricted.

What do you suggest in this situation?

Thank you.

InaAhern

Hi Della-

There are a couple different options.  One is to use your e-mail address for all the student accounts….either your regular e-mail or by creating a new e-mail that you use just for student e-mails. This means that you will have to manage any change password requests or other issues, but you can have as many accounts on the one e-mail as is necessary.

Another option may be to ask your tech department to "green light" Esri for use within your Google Apps for Edu domain.  That's what we did in our school.  Our e-mail is set up so that students can only send and receive e-mail from other addresses within our domain, but the administrator was able to set it so that students could receive e-mails from Esri so they could get password resets or other e-mails required to use AGO.  We're in our second year of using that approach and it seems to be working fine.

Ina