Finally played with this basic mail merge template for Google Docs. I like it. It’s a great tool for teachers.
In the data tab create a spreadsheet of your class with the following information:
- student first
- student last name
- the correct pronouns (he/she, him/her, his/her)
- email of each parent
- parent names.
Set that up once and you are in mail merge Nirvana for the rest of the school year. Easily send personalized info to parents all year long. It should work for mailings of less than 100, so secondary teachers may need to organize it by day of the schedule.
Check out this LifeHacker post for directions and the link to the template:
http://lifehacker.com/5863338/get-mail-merge-in-gmail-with-this-google-docs-templat