Teachers can set the Room Paret role for parents that are helping in the classroom.   

A Room Parent role CAN -

• Post updates/announcements/alerts to the class
• Send Class messages
• Invite parents
• Add volunteer requests
• Add events to calendar
• Add albums & photos

A Room Parent Role CANNOT -

• Create parent-teacher conference
• View or use Behavior Management feature
• View or use Student Portfolio feature.
• View private messages (for that matter, no one other than explicit participants can view private messages)

To make this change of role for a parent:

• Click on the Class
• Go to the Manage Icon
• Click on the Parent tab
  
• Select the parent 
• Clcik on the Change Role icon
• Select Rooom Parent 
• Save