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name: al-266-write-a-personal-email-to-every-student-from-their-grades
description: "A short personal note from a teacher can bring a struggling student back or keep a strong one motivated, but writing dozens of them by hand each week rarely happens. An AI assistant can read your gradebook export, sort students into groups (falling behind, missing work, improving, excelling) and draft a personal, encouraging email for each one that mentions their actual scores and one clear next step, which you review before sending. Hawkes Learning added an AI-powered Message Assistant to its Hawkes Teach instructor platform on Oct 21, 2026 that drafts individualized student emails from each student's scores, letting the instructor choose tone and intent and edit before sending. Use when the user wants help with student communication (education) for a small business."
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# Write a personal email to every student from their grades: a nudge for those falling behind, praise for those doing well

A short personal note from a teacher can bring a struggling student back or keep a strong one motivated, but writing dozens of them by hand each week rarely happens. An AI assistant can read your gradebook export, sort students into groups (falling behind, missing work, improving, excelling) and draft a personal, encouraging email for each one that mentions their actual scores and one clear next step, which you review before sending. Hawkes Learning added an AI-powered Message Assistant to its Hawkes Teach instructor platform on Oct 21, 2026 that drafts individualized student emails from each student's scores, letting the instructor choose tone and intent and edit before sending.

## Inputs to collect first
Ask the user for anything below that they haven't already given you. Don't guess missing facts.

- Name, level
- E.g. Ms. Lee
- Warm / encouraging / direct
- Or upload an export with student first name, assignment scores…

## Instructions

Do the task below with the user's inputs in place of each [bracket].

Help me write personal emails to my students based on their grades. Course: [name, level]. My name and how I sign off: [e.g. Ms. Lee]. Tone: [warm / encouraging / direct]. Gradebook: [paste or upload an export with student first name, assignment scores, missing work, attendance; you can remove last names and IDs first]. Do this: 1) Sort students into groups: needs help now (failing or 2+ missing assignments), slipping (scores dropping), steady, improving, excelling. Show me the list first. 2) For each student, draft a short email (under 120 words) that mentions one or two real facts from their scores, says something genuinely positive, gives one specific next step (e.g. submit Lesson 4 by Friday, come to office hours Tuesday 3 pm, try the practice set), and offers help. 3) Don't compare students to each other, don't mention other students' grades, and don't guess reasons for low scores. 4) Put everything in a table: student, group, subject line, email text, so I can review, edit and send each one myself.

## Safety checks (share these with the user)

- Remove names, contact details, account numbers and other personal data the task doesn't need before you paste, and check your AI tool's data and training settings.
- Read and edit the draft before it reaches a customer or goes public. If you later automate this prompt, start with "draft and notify me", not "send automatically".
- Check names, dates, numbers and any claim against your own source material before you use the answer. AI can misread or invent details.
- Say clearly which parts need a person to review or approve before anything is sent, paid, posted or filed.

## About this skill

- Works with: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Hawkes Teach, Google Sheets, Excel
- Based on this real-world example: https://www.hawkeslearning.com/blog/grading-just-got-faster-message-assistant-direct-lesson-score-edits-and-bulk-grade-editing
- Free prompt from AgentPlaybook Real Estate: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/prompt/al-266-write-a-personal-email-to-every-student-from-their-grades-a/
- To install in an agent that supports Agent Skills, save this file as SKILL.md in a folder with the same name as `name` above (for example in your skills directory). Install steps for Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex: https://agentic-library.netlify.app/skills/