jaireddjawed / Auto-Student-Email

Automatically send out session confirmation emails, new student emails, and weekly emails to your students. (For Trilogy Education Coding Bootcamp Tutors).

Auto Student Email

Automatically and easily send out session confirmation emails, new student emails, and session confirmation emails to students.

Prerequisites

• iCloud Account
• Calendly Account
• Google Account
• Sendgrid Account
• Have Python 3 and Pip Installed
• Own a domain. I recommend using Google Domains.

Setup

Connect your iCloud Account to Calendly

• Go to your Calendly Account
• On the Account tab, click Calendar Connections
• Connect your iCloud Calendar to Calendly

Clone Project and Install Required Libraries

• Clone this project to your machine
• Run this command in your terminal

pip3 install pyicloud numpy gspread oauth2client

Create Google Cloud Platform Project

• Create a Google Cloud Platform Project and enable the Google Drive and Google Sheets APIs
• Create A Service Account Key
• From the Service account list, click New Service Account
• Enter a service account name and select "Owner" as the role
• Click Create
• A JSON file should download to your computer. Change the name of the file to credentials.json and put it inside the top level of your project folder
• Share your Tutor Tracking spreadsheet with the client_email that's inside of credentials.json

Create Sendgrid API Key

• On the Sendgrid dashboard, click "Settings" and then click "API Keys"
• Create an API key and save it in settings.json
• To prevent your messages from being sent into spam, verify the domain you'll be sending emails from

Settings.json

• Change the default settings in settings.json to your custom settings

Usage

• To send an email to a new student, add them to the last row of your roster and run the following command in your terminal

python3 new_student.py

• To send out your weekly email blast, run the following command in your terminal

python3 weekly_email.py

• To send out your session emails for the following day, run the following command in your terminal

python3 session_confirmation.py

• When you run the script for the first time, it will ask to send a code to the phone number associated with your iCloud account. Select your phone number and wait until Apple calls you and gives you the code. Do not enter the code that was given to you through a push notification. It will not work.

• The script will automatically adjust the session time to the student's time zone.