Google Classroom is a fantastic tool, with diverse uses for teachers from K-12. It is, however, so important that at the end of each school year we REMOVE STUDENTS FROM CLASSES THAT HAVE ENDED. When we don’t remove students, our classes remain on their screen into the new school year, and they no longer have the power to unenroll themselves from classes.
Further, it is an important privacy practice to remove students from educational apps at the end of each school year. Whether we have enrolled them in a typing program, a video creation app, or a communications app, it is so important to not leave their personal information unattended in apps they are no longer actively using.
If you haven’t removed past students from educational apps you’ve used, please make that a top priority to take care of!