Happy Monday!
As we approach the end of the school year, it is a perfect time to begin cleaning up our Google Classroom and Google Drive. Just as we have had a locker, room, or desk cleanout it is also important to have Google Classroom and Google Drive clean up. Please take a few minutes to do the following before we leave for the summer.
1) Archive your Google Classrooms - One of the great things about Google Classroom is that even after your archive your class you still have access to the lessons and the student work from that class. By archiving your class, it disappears from your classroom home screen and also from your students' screens.
2) Return All Work - I would strongly consider that you do this. If you have work that your students have not turned in then that still makes you the owner. If you delete that work without returning then it will be deleted for you and your students. By returning the work, it transfers ownership back to the students.
3) Remove Calendars - Every time a teacher creates a Google Classroom a calendar is created. If you no longer need a calendar then remove it! I was working with one of our fabulous teachers the other week, and we discovered that the calendar we thought she was putting events on was actually an old Google Classroom Calendar.
4) Clean up your Google Classroom Folder - Within Google Drive, you have a folder called "Classroom" residing in that folder are all of the assignments/work from each individual class. Consider creating a sub-folder called 2020-2021 Classroom and placing your Google Classrooms from this year in that folder.
I have created a Presentation with short videos to walk you through this process in the link below.
Have a GREAT Summer,
Clint
