Manage Google Group Settings

Overview

Group managers can manage group members, discussions, and other settings.

Group settings you can change as a manager include:

  • Whether messages are archived and available on the group's page
  • Who can post messages to the group or see the member list
  • Whether you can invite people outside of your domain
  • Who can join the group
  • Whether messages to the group are moderated
  • Whether the group is listed in the directory

Google Groups are administered by the University.

Some settings you may not change as a manager include:

  • The email address for the group
  • What type of group it is (e.g., Email List)
  • Who the group's Owner is
  • Deleting or disabling the group

In this article:

Review or Make Changes to Google Group

To review or make changes to group settings:

  1. Login to your University of Alaska account at groups.google.com. 
  2. On the My groups page, find the group you wish to manage.
  3. Click the group from the list. 
  4. Click Group settings. 
  5. Additional submenu options will appear. Select the option you would like to review or modify.

Refer to the official Google Groups Help page for more information and resources about managing a Google Group.

Change Member Role

Navigate to your groups at groups.google.com. Click on the name of the group and follow these steps to change a member status to manager.

  1. To the right of the name of the person whose status you want to change, click the drop-down arrow next to the Roles.
  2.  Select Manager.

You can also remove yourself as manager of a group, but you have to make someone else an manager before you can remove yourself.

  1. To the right of your name, click the drop-down arrow under the Role column header.
  2. Select Member.

Add or remove prefix from a Group

Google Groups typically do not contain a prefix such as [groupname] in the subject for messages sent to the group. This can be added by following the steps below.

  1. Navigate to your groups at groups.google.com. 
  2. Click My groups.
  3. Click the name of the group that you want to manage.
  4. Click Settings and scroll down to Email options.
  5. Enter the prefix into the Subject prefix box.
  6. Click Save.

Add or remove a footer from a Group

  1. Navigate to your groups at groups.google.com. 
  2. Click My groups.
  3. Click the name of the group that you want to manage.
  4. Click Settings and scroll down to Email options.
  5. To add or remove a footer, check or uncheck the box that says
    • Include the Standard Groups footer - select if you want to use Google's default footer text, which includes instructions to unsubscribe from the group.
    • Include a customer footer - select if you want to add any custom text to the group's footer
    Tip
    You can include both Google's default footer text and add any of your own custom text by selecting both options.
  6. Click Save.

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Need additional help or have issues

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