"I lost my work."
It's a sentence I grew to loathe at school.
Day in and day out, I would hear stories of backpacks with black holes at the bottom, starving pets who only ate paper, and how students would prefer to have every assignment just on their phones because they would NEVER lose their phones...
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| This lady is in grave danger because there's a black hole in her backpack that is capable of eating everything homework-related in her life. |
Then I started using Google Classroom. And suddenly instead of pets eating their homework, students were dealing with Google eating their homework.
Until I found some solutions for what to do when a student (not Google) deletes an assignment (because Google doesn't automatically delete assignments no matter WHAT your kids are telling you).
It is incredibly easy for a student to create a new copy of a blank assignment OR reattach a copy of a completed assignment.
How to Restore an Assignment
Creating a new copy
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| Shoutout to my coworkers who are cool with adding me as students to their classes so I can take screenshots! |
This is what a student will see if they've just deleted their assignment on Google Classroom. Creating a new copy of a blank assignment is as simple as clicking a button.
- Tell your student to click "make a copy" and BOOM there's a brand new blank copy created just for them.
Reattaching a file
Let's say the student has already put a lot of work into their assignment. Then, when they went to hit the "turn in" button, they somehow managed to click the x and delete their assignment. |
| Deja Vu |
They do NOT have to start from scratch. Instead, they should return to the assignment page (which will also look like the screenshot above).
- Click on "Add or create." It will let you choose where to upload your file from. Click "Google drive." If you've worked with the file recently, it should show up under your recent files. Click whichever assignment you'd like to upload and it will add your file back to the assignment.
From there, double-check that the file saved your most recent edits, and then hit the blue "turn in" button to submit.
Wrapping up
See? Easy! No reason to panic if (okay, when) a student accidentally removes their work from an assignment.
Hope this helps!
Until next time,
K. Hanlin
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