Year End 

Cleaning Up Your Google Classroom(s)

In much the same way you hand back student work and close your physical classroom, your digital classroom and digital work also need to be finalized.  Here’s how (blue text is hyperlinked to show you more).  Before you begin, take a minute to reflect on what you did with this Classroom that was successful and what you’d like to improve for next year.  Make a copy of the exemplary work you want to use next year.  This puts it in your drive and allows the student to keep the original. 

Task 1:  Grade and return all student work. This transfers ownership back to the student.

Classroom gives the teacher ownership over documents handed in.  For students to be owners of their work, you will need to return it.

Task 2:  Archive your Classroom Archiving classes clean up the Classroom interface for teachers and students. Archived classes are not deleted. Teachers are still able to reuse posts and materials from archived classes, and both teachers and students can access files in the Classroom folder in Drive. Only the teacher who created the Classroom can archive it; invited co-teachers cannot. There is no way to copy a class for the new school year. Instead, teachers will create new classes and use the feature to “reuse posts” from the archived classes. Knowing this, you may want to include the school year when creating and naming future classes so that you can more easily select the desired class posts for reuse.  Do NOT delete your Classroom folder in Google Drive.

Task 3:  Set up next year's Classroom so you are ready to go on Day 1.  Have students join your classroom on the first week of classes.  Jazz up your classroom header by designing your own using Canva's Google Classroom Header templates.  

Organize your Google Drive

Task 4:  Clean and organize your drive.  Take the time to get rid of any files you no longer need.  Create folders to organize your files.  Folders can be color-coded too. 

Organize your Bookmarks 

Task 5:  Bookmarks (internet favorites) are a great way to get to a website quickly, but if you are like me, you have a ton all in a straight list with no organization.  Take some time to delete the ones you no longer need and create folders to organize those that you want to keep. 

Student Recommendations

Before students leave for the summer, please suggest that they delete any files that they no longer need.  If you would like them to keep a portfolio of certain writing pieces, projects,  work examples, etc. have them create a folder, label it 2021-2022, and drag and drop their documents.  You may also want to suggest that they delete any apps that they downloaded on their own that they no longer need and delete any bookmarks that they will no longer need.

Classroom Technology Maintenance (NOT STUDENT CHROMEBOOKS)
Summer is a great time for our IT staff to maintain equipment.  Before you leave for the summer, please take the time to call the Help Desk at ext. 5555 or email them at helpdesk@esmschools.org and submit a technology maintenance ticket for each item in need of repair (Interactive whiteboards, teacher laptops, document cameras, etc.). You will need to provide your name, building location, room number, and as much detail as possible about the reported problem.  

IMPORTANT:  Follow your building's protocols with regard to the maintenance and storage of student Chromebooks.  

Student Password Resets
For students, yes. For staff, no. 

PreK-5 student passwords will be reset after Regents Week in late August. It will be replaced with a default password that PreK-5 staff will be notified about via email from the IT department.  

Students will be prompted to reset the default password upon the next login. 

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ParentSqure will archive past posts for the 2022-2023 School Year on July 3rd, 2023.