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Reassign (Institution Admins only) changes who owns a piece of content. The classic case is a teacher going on leave: their classroom, its activities, and its students move to the colleague covering, and everything keeps working under the new owner.

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What you can reassign

Both teachers must belong to your institution. Experiences (field trips) can’t be reassigned yet.

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How it works

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Choose the teacher and the item

Pick the current owner, then the classroom or item from their list.
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Choose the new owner

Pick the receiving teacher.
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Preview

Nothing changes yet. The preview lists what moves (including the student count for a classroom), what stays, and any warnings or blockers.
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Confirm

The move is made in one step. It appears in the Activity log and under Recent reassignments on the page.

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What the preview can tell you

Blocked — you must resolve these first:
  • The activity is inside a classroom. Reassign the whole classroom instead; moving a single activity out from under its class would break the class.
  • A quiz in the classroom has a live game running. Wait for it to end.
Heads up — the move goes ahead, but you should know:
  • The receiving teacher’s plan will be over its activity limit afterwards. Nothing is lost, but they can’t create new activities until they’re back under the limit.
  • An activity uses per-student or group assignment that the receiving teacher’s plan can’t create new assignments for. Existing assignments keep working.
  • An activity has Google Drive attachments. Files stay in the original teacher’s Drive and don’t move.
  • Students move with the classroom, so the new teacher gains access to their work.
  • An assessment or study guide is shared with the original teacher’s other classrooms, so it stays with them. The moved classroom keeps access.

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What always stays the same

  • Public and student links keep working; only the owner behind them changes.
  • Tag definitions are copied into the new owner’s tags, matched by name.
  • Grading history and records of who did what are kept as they were.
  • The original teacher’s account and everything else they own are untouched.
Reassignment is one-way. There’s no undo button, but the same tool works in reverse — the Recent reassignments list on the page shows exactly what moved, so you can move it back.