Kahl on Me - Start of Year Help

I wanted to add a little portion in here for some beginning of the year tips/reminders for Classroom.

Archive past classes. This does not delete those classes, it just cleans up the area that lists all of your classes and helps cut down on any confusion. You will still have the ability to reuse posts from those archived classes!
- To archive your class, be sure you are on the "Classes" page. From here, click on the three dots on the top right corner of the class you want to archive. Last, click "Archive"

Project your class code instead of taking the time to add students. During the first couple days of school, I would recommend, projecting or writing your class code on the board so all students can join at once. It also saves you the time of entering all of the students emails and dealing with the hassle of them deleting the invite or it expiring.

Reusing and Scheduling Posts:

A couple of helpful reminders are that you can reuse previous, or current, assignments and material. This is especially helpful for teachers who teach the same class to multiple sections. All that you need to do is create the assignment in one class, post it, go to the new class, select that you want to reuse an assignment, find the class with the material, select the material, and post it.

Scheduling posts is also extremely helpful. You can use this any time and for any material. In order to schedule the assignment or material, you just click the dropdown arrow next to the "Assign" button and select "Schedule". From there a new menu will appear and allow you to select the date and time you want your material to be posted. *I have learned that the material could be posted about 10 minutes before or after the scheduled time. You may want to keep that in mind if you are planning on it posting at the exact minute you scheduled.*

Scheduling is especially helpful if you post recurring assignments, when you know there will be a substitute in your room, or if you're just really on the ball and have your assignments ready to go.

There is talk that Classroom will be updating both the reuse option as well as the scheduling option. These updates will make scheduling and reusing posts even easier than it is, so hopefully those updates roll out soon!