End of the Year Clean Up!

Create a template course

Are you teaching the same subject or grade level next year? Make your life easier by creating a template course for the following year by copying your Google Classroom. All of your topics, syllabus, and assignments will copy over as drafts and your Google Classroom will be ready for the following year. Students cannot see drafts on their end, so you can push out the assignments when you are ready next year.

Making a copy is as easy at 1-2-3:

1. Go to Google Classroom

2. Click on the 3 dots on the class card

3. Click copy

Archive your Google Classes!

There are a few ways to clean up your Google Workspace before you leave for the summer. One of the most important is to ARCHIVE your Google classroom. It is important because students can still communicate through Google Classroom even if you are not actively using it. This makes archiving is VERY important!

Eric Curts' blog CTL ALT Achieve gives great directions on how to archive an old class:

When you are done with a class, a good way to clean up Classroom is to archive the old classes. Archiving is a process that:

Removes the class from your main Classroom home page (making your page cleaner and easier to navigate).

Freezes the class so no new changes can be made to it (especially helpful if you choose not to remove students from the old classes)

Still allows you to copy and reuse old posts and assignments from the archived class in your new classes.

Don't worry if you ever need to un-archive a class, you can!