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Currently, our SIS team receives emails from people outside our domain, like parents. The team is looking for a solution that can assign emails to members of the team to indicate ownership of work. 

I know we can use IIQ to set up a way to create tickets from an email address and have those tickets assigned to a team. One of my concerns is that we don't allow parents to have accounts created in IIQ. This means when a parent gets an email response from IIQ saying they have a ticket created based on their sent email, they're going to see a button that says "View Ticket Details." When they try to click on this button, they will get an error message when they try to log in. 

I also know we can work around this by having accounts automatically created. The problem I have with this process, though, is the possibility of the parents discovering the agent's email address or phone number within the ticket. They would like to make sure their contact info isn't automatically discovered by the public and become overwhelmed when late July rolls around for student registration. 

Perhaps I’m overthinking this, but how have other schools handled this? At first, I tried to use the Collaborative Inbox in Google Workspace Groups, but it seems a little buggy when it comes to replying back as a group. 

Thanks in advance. 

Hi ​@along0931 We have a email address setup to forward to iiQ that creates tickets for our Family support team. We don't allow our Guests to login to iiQ and we have not gotten any push back from parents as they can reply to the email to add a note to the ticket. here is how our site is set up.

 

 

 

If the request are more just a back and forth email and less about having a ticket we also have just set up collaborative inboxes in Google Groups for communication. It sounds like the missing piece may be adding an alternative sending address to your SIS gmail accounts https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

 

 


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