Skip to main content
When a unit has run its course, you no longer have to choose between deleting an activity and letting it clutter your dashboard. Archive puts it away — out of the classroom, out of your students’ view, and out of your plan limit — and keeps everything you built so you can restore it for a different class next term. Archiving works for all seven activity types: Maps, Quizzes, Flash Cards, Timelines, Fill-in-the-Blank, Graphs & Charts, and Diagrams. It’s available on every plan.

​
Archiving an activity

1

Open the activity

From your Dashboard, open the activity you want to put away.
2

Click Archive

The Archive button sits next to Delete. A confirmation explains what will happen before anything does.
Archiving does four things at once:
  • Removes it from its classroom — students no longer see it in their classroom or dashboard.
  • Locks the links. Anyone opening a saved link — the play link, a shared URL, even a Study Guide embed — sees a “This activity has been archived — please contact your teacher” notice instead of the activity. That includes you: while archived, you work with it from your dashboard, not the play link.
  • Frees up your plan. Archived activities don’t count toward your activity limit, so archiving makes room to create something new.
  • Keeps everything. Nothing is deleted — your content and your students’ work are all still there.
Archived activities are kept for 365 days. If you haven’t restored one within a year of archiving it, it’s permanently deleted.

​
Finding your archived activities

On the Dashboard’s Activities panel (and the All Activities page), toggle the Archived filter to switch the list between your active and archived activities. Open any archived activity to view it, check student work, or restore it.

​
While it’s archived, you can still see everything

Archiving hides the activity from students — not from you. From the archived activity’s page you can still:
  • Review student submissions and results — fill-in-the-blank attempts, chart submissions, flash-card progress, and the work on issued copies.
  • See the Students panel for issued activities, showing who owns which copy. It’s read-only while archived — assignments resume when you restore.
  • Export PDFs of timelines and diagrams, including your students’ issued copies.

​
Restoring an activity

1

Open the archived activity

Use the Archived filter to find it, then open it and click Restore.
2

Choose a classroom

The picker pre-selects the classroom it came from, but you can send it anywhere — that’s the point of archiving a unit for next semester. If the original classroom no longer exists, just pick its new home.
Restoring clears student work. Submissions, student-added pins and entries, work on issued copies, and flash-card study progress from the previous run are removed, so the activity comes back fresh for its new class. Everything you created — questions, passages, cards, example pins, reference material, and settings — is kept. The confirmation reminds you of this before anything happens; if you still need last term’s work, review or export it before restoring.
If restoring would put you over your plan’s activity limit, ChimeEdu asks you to archive or delete something else first — or upgrade — rather than restoring silently over the cap.

​
Common questions

Delete is permanent and immediate — the activity and everything in it is gone. Archive is reversible for 365 days and keeps everything. If there’s any chance you’ll teach the unit again, archive it.
No — Quick Activities are temporary by design and expire on their own after 8 hours. Archiving is for permanent activities.
Not yet — archiving currently covers the seven activity types. A Study Guide that embeds an archived activity keeps working; the embedded piece shows the archived notice.
Yes — the picker defaults to the original classroom, but you can choose any classroom you own. That’s the intended workflow for reusing a unit with a new class.

Per-Student & Groups

How issued copies work — the student work that a restore clears.

Plans & Pricing

Activity limits by plan — and how archiving frees a slot.