Old & Unused Google Classroom Classes

Hey, teachers!

You and your students might be feeling a little Google Classroom Overload with all those pesky, old classes just hanging around.

Well, no fear! There's a way to clean those up!

I have a couple of classes from the 2016-2017 that have A LOT of really useful information in them. I don't want to delete them (Oh, the horror!), but I do want to get them out of the way as I am using my Google Classroom every day.

So... what do I do? I ARCHIVE them! Here's how...

Locate the Google Classroom Tiles that you would like to archive

Click on the menu (verticle dots) at the upper-right of a tile (1)

Click Archive (2)

Confirm that you would like to archive this class. (Once archived students will no longer see that class either. Whew!)

(Optional) Delete Old Classrooms (Or just to access archived classrooms)

Deleting old classrooms has some benefit, but you must also be careful. When you archive a Class, you can still access that Class and even reuse assignments from that class, AWESOME! (Students can still get to them, too.) However, when you delete a Class, you permanently remove that class forever, from everyone. Here's the BENEFIT. As teachers archive and then DELETE unwanted Classrooms, it will cause our Skyward/Google Classroom Sync to complete more quickly, meaning Classroom and Roster Updates happen faster, too. So, PLEASE DELETE OLD, UNWANTED CLASSROOMS as you are able.

Go to the upper-left of your Google Classroom, click on the menu

Scroll to the bottom of the menu, click Archived Classes

Select the menu (verticle dots) of the classroom tile you wish to delete (1)

Click Delete (2)

Confirm that you would like to permanently delete that Class

Done... now, my Google Classroom doesn't feel so cluttered. Whew!

Other ways to clean up or use Classroom...

Rearrange Class Tiles by Alice Keeler
Managing Google Classroom Notifications by Matt Miller
Reusing Posts (Assignments, Announcements, or Questions) by Alice Keeler

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