Does the Classes page in Google Classroom for you or your students look like a confusing mixture of Classrooms from last year and this year? If so, you are probably not alone! Last year all of you created amazing Google Classrooms that provided vital learning resources to your students and their families. However, creating and sharing so many Classrooms can create a mess on the Classes page, which is the page that has all of the tiles for each individual Classroom. Between last year and this year some of you and your students have accumulated 12 to 15 Classrooms or more making it impossible to find the one you need. Below are two ways you can go about managing this mess and making Google Classroom more accessible for you and your students.

Archiving a Google Classroom - an archived Classroom is archived for all students and teachers in the class. Materials, work, and posts are preserved. It no longer appears on the Classes page with all of the other Classrooms. Only the primary teacher can archive a Classroom. I would encourage you to adopt this option, which will help your organization as well as your student's.

Unenrolling from a Google Classroom - unenrolling from a Classroom means a student will no longer have access to it. Files shared with or created by the student through the Classroom are only accessible through Google Drive. Only a student can unenroll from a Classroom.

Archiving a Google Classroom

When you’re done teaching a class, you can archive it. When a class is archived, it’s archived for all students and teachers in the class. If you don’t archive a class, students and teachers in the class continue to see it on their Classes page.

Teachers and co-teachers can archive a class, but only the primary teacher can delete a class. Students can’t archive or delete a class.

What happens to an archived class?

• It’s placed in a separate area to preserve the class materials, student work, and posts. You won’t see it with your active classes on the Classes page.

• You and your students can view an archived class. To use the class again, you have to restore it.

• You and your students can still access any class materials in Google Drive. That includes any attachments for assignments or other student work.

• Students can’t unenroll from an archived class. This can limit how students can manage the classes they’re done taking.

• The class calendar remains in your Google Calendar and in your students' calendars. If you no longer need the class, you can remove its calendar from view, or delete it permanently. For instructions, go to Delete or unsubscribe from a calendar.
  Note: An archived class stays in Classroom until you delete it. That’s why an archived class’s calendar still shows in your Google Calendar.

Archive a class

You can copy classes before or after you archive them. For instructions, go to Copy a class.

1. Go to classroom.google.com.

2. On the class card, click the three vertical dots then Archive.

3. Click Archive to confirm.

Unenrolling From a Google Classroom

When you unenroll from a class, you will no longer see it in Classroom, but all your class files are stored in your Google Drive.

If you accidentally unenrolled from a class and need to re-enroll, see Join a class as a student.

Note: You can’t unenroll from an archived class. Contact your teacher and ask them to unarchive the class so you can unenroll.

1. Go to classroom.google.com.

2. On the class, click three vertical dots then Unenroll.

3. Click Unenroll to confirm.

Note: If you are a teacher you can follow the directions for Unenrolling but click Leave to leave a class that you aren't the primary teacher for. This is the teacher equivalent of Unenrolling from a class.