Clean Up, Clean Up! LMS Everywhere

 

The end of the school year is nearing and we are starting to think about wrapping things up. Our learning management systems and other online courses need to come to and end and be saved for next year. Where do  you start? 

Seesaw 

If you have a KISD rostered class, there is no reason to archive! Your Seesaw classes will automatically archive! However, if you have a teacher created course, you will need to archive yourself under class settings.

District rostered classes will carry the student portfolio with the student to the next teacher. In teacher created classes, parents and students will need to download their past work before they lose it. 

Here is a quick link for families to download their student’s work. They have 60 days from the date the teacher archives the class to download the student’s journal. Seesaw will let families know when a teacher archives the class and items will be lost. 

Warning, if you had a student move mid year, their work might not follow them. 

Something to remember: Your classes are automatically rostered by the school district and when using rostered classes, the students and family accounts automatically carry over and connect one year to the next. So, if the previous teacher used a rostered class, portfolios will carry over, and families will automatically be connected to the new teachers. 

With the year winding down, you might have time to organize your lessons you spent this past year making and mastering. Seesaw allows you to make collections and organize them! Then you can share them out to your school library to create that school wide community of amazing Seesaw content! 

Google Classroom

Classroom makes it so simple to archive classes at the end of your term or school year! It is best practice to archive Google Classrooms so students cannot continue to get into them and exploit the stream while the teacher is not explicitly monitoring the online content. Once you archive your class, do not fear! Google allows you to go back into your archived classrooms and make a copy to use all of the wonderful content you made this year and use it in your new school year! 

Canvas

If you are using a rostered class from the district, then your class will manually conclude at the end of May. Teacher created courses should also conclude at the end of May if you set your class timeline to  “Term”  in settings when the course was created. 

Your content is not gone when you conclude a course! It will now live in “Past Enrollments” which you can get to in the navigation menu on the left under Courses -- All Courses -- Past Enrollments.

When you are ready to reuse the content, find the previous courses in Past Enrollments and make a copy of the course to your new district rostered course! 

Viola, you are ready to go enjoy the summer sun and outdoors!