Google Classroom: End of the Year Procedures
It's hard to believe that next week we'll flip the calendars to May. If you have been using Google Classroom this year, you'll want to do some maintenance at the end of the school year so that your online Classroom will be ready for your new classes in August. Below is a short video from Teaching Forward that explains how to archive your classes at the end of the year. And HERE is a link with instructions from Google.
Gmail: End of the Year Procedures
As you begin organizing your physical space in preparation for summer, it's a good time to organize your digital space, as well. And one of the most frequently used digital spaces is email. Yikes! That inbox can get out of control.
If there are items in your email that you never want to see again, just send them to your Trash and empty the trash. If there are items in your email that you want to keep, label and move them OR archive them. When you archive an item in Gmail, it can be found again by searching All Mail.
Remember that if you are on a computer, you can select a single email or multiple emails by clicking the checkbox in front of the email. Then you can select an action from the menu above the emails, or simply drag the emails to their destination.
If you open your Gmail on a personal device, make sure that your swipe settings are set to accomplish what you want. In your device settings, specify if you want a swiped email to go to TRASH or to ARCHIVE.
Click HERE for Google's Gmail help page.
Google Drive: Shared With Me
The Shared With Me link in Google Drive tends to look like a junk drawer in someone's kitchen...a slew of mismatched items. But that's okay. Shared With Me is not really a folder at all, but a temporary holding space for files that others have allowed me access, with the most recent shared file appearing first in the list. However, moving things out of Shared With Me can cause other collaborators to lose access to a file. If there are items in your Shared With Me that you would like to retain in your Drive but want to organize so that you can find them later, watch the three-minute video from Teaching Forward below.
