Closing Down Your Google Classroom Classes

We've arrived...almost. Before the summer whisks us away, we wanted to repost some helpful information regarding Google Classroom housekeeping for those of you who use it.

As you may have noticed in your own account, Google Classroom can get pretty hard to navigate after the classes and assignments pile up. Beyond the visual disarray, though, there are some other important reasons why we should properly close down our GC classes before signing off for the summer.

We'll just point out two of these reasons here:

1. Unlocking all of your former students' work for them, and
2. Reducing cheating in future classes.

Know that when you archive a GC class, you retain access to all of your materials in Drive, and you retain the ability to copy and reuse old posts and assignments from that archived class.

Have a look at the infographic above. The steps are straightforward - the first four take care of the bulk of the work, and the last two are optional cleanup tasks that can help clean up your Drive and make future searches easier.

The step that can take the most time is returning students' work (if you haven't been in the habit of doing so throughout the year). Students only regain ownership of their submitted docs once you have returned them.

For folks who would like more detailed stepwise help, these resources are helpful, even if they're a few years old:

Resource 1: Video Walkthrough

Resource 2: Written Directions with Screenshots

Your TIS team is happy to help or answer any questions you might have about GC cleanup, or anything else ed tech, before we ship off for summer. Reach out anytime!