Sign Up - Instructions

Each child will have to sign up with their own unique email address.  Please follow the instructions below to set up an individual email account for your child if they do not currently have their own email address.

Create a Gmail account

To sign up for Gmail, create a Google Account. You can use the username and password to sign in to Gmail and other Google products like YouTube, Google Play, and Google Drive.

Sign up for a Gmail account

  1. Go to the Google Account creation page.
  2. Follow the steps on the screen to set up your account.
  3. Use the account you created to sign in to Gmail.

Create an account

If you would like to have the emails from the separate child email addresses automatically forwarded to your parent email to help them keep track of notices and submissions, please follow the instructions below.

Automatically forward Gmail messages to another account

You can choose to forward all of your new messages to another email address, or only forward certain types of messages. 

Set up automatic forwarding 

You can automatically forward your messages to another address. You can choose to forward all new messages, or just certain ones.

Note: You can only set up forwarding on your computer, and not on the Gmail app. If you have an account through work or school and have trouble, contact your administrator.

Turn automatic fowarding on or off

Note: When your new messages are forwarded, messages from spam won’t be included.

Turn on automatic forwarding

  1. On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to forward messages from. You can only forward messages for a single Gmail address, and not an email group or alias.
  2. In the top right, click Settings Settings and then See all settings. 
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the “Forwarding” section, click Add a forwarding address.
  5. Enter the email address you want to forward messages to.
  6. Click Next and then Proceed and then OK.
  7. A verification message will be sent to that address. Click the verification link in that message.
  8. Go back to the settings page for the Gmail account you want to forward messages from, and refresh your browser.
  9. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  10. In the “Forwarding” section, select Forward a copy of incoming mail to.
  11. Choose what you want to happen with the Gmail copy of your emails. We recommend Keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox.
  12. At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.

Turn off automatic forwarding

  1. On your computer, open Gmail using the account you want to stop forwarding messages from.
  2. In the top right, click Settings Settings and then See all settings. 
  3. Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab.
  4. In the “Forwarding” section, click Disable forwarding.
  5. At the bottom, click Save Changes.

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