Archive Last Year's Google Classroom Classes

Miriam reminded me of this piece of housekeeping.

Clear out last year's classes from Google Classroom.

Go to your main page, click on the old classes at the three dots in the upper right-hand corner.

Choose archive. The class and all its postings will be retained in your Google Drive in the folder "Classroom," but won't clutter your main page.

ADDENDUM: If, like me, you teach the same sections each year, naming the class in Google Classroom can get confusing - in your Google Drive Classroom folder, you'll have several folders labeled "9^th Grade Biology" or whatever.

You can go into your Google Drive Classroom folder and rename the old classes to avoid confusion. (Right-click > Rename) I just place an "X" at the beginning of the inactive folders.

ADDENDUM 2: Sometimes I just don't think. 

Go into your classroom folder, make a new folder (NEW > Folder) and name it with last year's date (e.g. "2015-16").

Move all of last year's folders into this folder. SO much neater. 

And while you're at it, color-code your folders to keep them straight.