Each classroom has a settings area, opened from the gear icon at the right end of the class's tab bar. Its Details page is where you rename a class and, when a class has truly run its course, delete it. This article covers both, explains exactly what deleting removes, and answers the question many teachers ask at the end of a term: can I archive a class instead?
Available on: every plan. The class's creator and its co-instructors can rename it. Only the teacher who created the class can delete it.
Open the class settings
Open the class from Classrooms.
Click the gear icon at the right end of the tab bar.
The settings open on Details. The other two tabs are Instructors (see Co-teaching: adding instructors to a classroom) and Certificates (see Course completion certificates).
The Details page, titled Classroom Settings, has three parts:
Classroom Title: the class's name, with an Edit button.
Date Created: the day the class was set up. It's for your reference and can't be changed.
Danger Zone: the Delete Classroom button, set apart in a red-bordered box.
Rename a class
Next to the current name under Classroom Title, click Edit.
Type the new name. Names can be up to 256 characters.
Click Save or press Enter. To back out, click Cancel or press Esc.
You'll see "Classroom title updated", and the new name shows right away in the class header and on your Classrooms page. Save stays gray while the box is empty or the name hasn't changed.
Renaming changes the name only. The class code, the students, their work, your assignments and everything else stay exactly as they were, so it's safe to rename mid-year. Students see the new name too.
If something goes wrong, you'll see a message starting "Failed to update the classroom title". Check your connection and try again.
What you can't change here
Grade. The grade you picked when you created the class can't be edited. It's a label and doesn't affect what students see.
Status. Every class is Active, and there's no setting to make one inactive.
Class code. Codes live under Share Class Code in the class header. See Inviting students with your class code or join link.
Can I archive a class?
Not today. Intertwined doesn't have an archive or inactive setting for classes, so at the end of a term you have two choices:
Keep the class. Nothing is lost, and you can look back at it any time. Drag it to the end of your Classrooms page so it's out of the way (see Creating and organizing your classrooms). Students stay in it unless you remove them.
Delete the class. It's gone for good, along with all student work in it, as described below.
If you aren't sure, keep it. A class you don't use costs nothing, and a deleted one can't come back.
Delete a class
Before you start: deleting can't be undone. If you might need grades or progress later, for report cards, a parent conference or your own records, save them first with Reports: exporting and sharing student progress or from the Gradebook.
Open the class settings and stay on Details.
In the Danger Zone, click Delete Classroom.
The Delete Classroom window asks "Are you sure you want to delete" followed by the class name, and reminds you that the action cannot be undone. Read the name carefully.
Click Delete, or Cancel to keep the class.
When the class is deleted, you're taken to your Dashboard and the class disappears from your Classrooms page.
If you click Delete and the window stays open with the class still there, check whether you created the class: co-instructors can't delete. If you are the class's creator and it still won't delete, contact us from the chat bubble.
What deleting removes
Deleting a class removes the class and everything that belongs to it:
The class itself, from your Classrooms page and from any co-instructor's.
Its class codes and join links, which stop working.
Every student's membership in the class, and all of their work in it: lesson progress, quiz scores and attempts, assignment completions and simulator games.
The class's assignments, assigned courses, Planner items, Manage Access choices, gradebook settings and simulator setups.
Its co-instructor list and certificate settings.
Deleting does not remove:
Student accounts. Students can still log in and join other classes with a class code.
Students' work in their other classes, and their Arcade play.
Course certificates students have already claimed.
Your other classes, and the courses in the Course Library.
Students in the deleted class aren't sent a message. The class disappears from their Student Portal. If it was their only class, their dashboard will be empty until they join another one.
Tips
Starting a new year with the same students? Create a new class and share its code. Students join with the accounts they already have, and last year's class stays intact for your records.
If you're deleting a class because students joined the wrong one, you may only need to remove a few students instead. See Removing students and students in more than one class.
Put the period or term in your class names, such as "Personal Finance - P3 - Fall", so old classes are easy to tell apart.
Common questions
I deleted a class by mistake. Can I get it back?
There's no undo in the portal. Contact us right away from the chat bubble with the class name, and we'll tell you what's possible.
Can a co-instructor delete my class?
No. Only the teacher who created a class can delete it. Co-instructors can rename it.
Does renaming a class change the class code?
No. The code and join link stay the same, and students don't need to do anything.
Will deleting a class delete my students' accounts?
No. Their accounts stay, along with anything they've done in other classes. Only their work in the deleted class is removed.