Tip #1 - Return all student work

So, one of the first tips to consider is to make sure you have properly returned all the Classroom assignments to your students.

One way to do this would be:

• Click the menu button in the top left corner of Classroom
• Choose "Work" from the drop-down menu.
• You can narrow it down to just one class at a time if needed by choosing a class from the "
• For each assignment you can click on the "Done" link to view the student submissions.

Tip #2 - Un-enroll students from old classes

Another possible clean-up step is to remove students from the old classes. This may be an option for you if you prefer not to have students accessing content from your class in the future.

• Open the course and go to the "Students" tab.
• Check the box at the top to select all the students in the class.
• Click the "Actions" button.
• Choose "Remove" from the drop-down menu.

Tip #3 - Archive old classes

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.

Tip #4 - Remove old class calendars

A calendar is automatically created in Google Calendar for each class. This is a convenient way for your and your students to go to Google Calendar and see upcoming due dates for classwork and projects throughout the course of the school year.

• Click the small down-arrow to the right of the class name in the "My calendars" list.
• If you just want to hide the class calendar from your list, simply click "Hide this calendar from the list".
• If instead you want to delete the calendar, click "Calendar settings".
• You can now scroll down to the bottom of the calendar details screen and click "Permanently delete this calendar".

Tip #5 - Move old class folders in Drive

Because Google Classroom automates the sharing and collaborating process, it is easy to forget what is actually going on behind the scenes in Google Drive. For each class you create in Google Classroom, a folder gets created in your Google Drive where all of the assignment documents and other files are stored.

• Go to Google Drive and select the "Classroom" folder.
• If you do not already have a place to move the old class folders, create a new folder by clicking "New" and "New folder".
• Name it something like "Archive" or "Old Classes" or such.
• You can now simply drag and drop the old class folders into the new folder you have created.

Tip #6 - Remove old class files from "Shared with me" in Drive

When files get shared as part of a Classroom assignment, sometimes the files will also show up in the "Shared with me" area of your Google Drive. If you have a lots of students and lot of assignments, this can cause quite a mess in "Shared with me".

• Make sure you have returned all the assignments to your students first before you delete anything out of "Shared with me" You are technically the owner of the file, and if you delete the file, it really gets deleted.
• On the other hand, if you are not the owner of a file, and you delete it from "Shared with me" it does not really delete the file.

Tip #6 - Naming Convention

• If you didn’t include the school year as part of your class name when you set up your class, be sure to “rename” it so that you can easily identify archived classes from year to year.