From an IT admin perspective, Google Classroom is a bit of a black box. ◼️ While you can manage access from the admin console, you have zero visibility into the courses that have been created and who is using them. 

Today I’d like to share a useful tool that I use during my Google ​admin audits​. It’s called “​Classroom Control​” and it gives you the ability to pull a list of all the courses in your domain and perform many useful actions. 

Why is this important? 

If a teacher leaves your school, but doesn’t archive their courses, those classes are now “orphaned” and provide an unsupervised space students can use as a chat room. This is one of several potential issues that can happen if you don’t audit your courses 1-2 times a year. 

What can you do with Classroom Control?

• Archive / delete courses
• Add / remove teachers and co-teachers
• Add / remove students
• Add / remove guardians

Classroom Control is maintained by Clay Smith, a former educator and current Google engineer. Clay has created many helpful utilities that fill in gaps in the admin console.

Additional resources

• Install Classroom Control Add-on
• Documentation and Support
• My Spreadsheet template
• Create a “visit a class” role (EDU Plus required)