As you start looking to wrap up the school year, you might want to think about spending some time 🧹cleaning up your Google Drive. Your future self will thank you for doing it!  Sarah Kiefer at “Tech You Can Do” created a great slideshow with tips and recommendations for doing this. I made a copy of her slideshow and added a few of my own tips. If you’re already familiar with the concept of organizing materials into folders, you should still check out tip #5 which gives you some shortcuts for quickly navigating through your Google Drive files. I like her tip of setting a timer and spending 10-15 minutes at a time. It won’t seem so overwhelming that way. Did you know if you search Google for “Timer” the first result will be a time you can set? Leave that tab open, go back to cleaning your Drive, and it will go off when your time is up (screenshot below).

Slideshow: 🧹Google Drive Cleanup 

In addition to organizing your Google Drive, there are steps you can take to finish out your Google Classroom after you end the year. You’ll find Sarah’s helpful slideshow on this site. I would add the suggestion of making a copy of your class if you want to re-use the assignments from this year with next year’s students You can find the directions here.

If you’re leaving Kelso at the end of the year don’t forget to take your Drive contents with you. This document shows you how. We generally suspend accounts a few months after staff members leave and then delete them a few months after that.

Finally- It might be helpful to set aside a little time to train your students how to organize THEIR Google Drives. On occasion I need to login to student accounts for troubleshooting purposes and I’m often amazed by the lack of organization. There are very few folders and TONS of Untitled documents. You can help them with this. The Preview shortcut (Step #5 in in the Google Drive Cleanup slideshow) would help them quickly deal with the Untitled documents.