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# Archive and Restore a Classroom

> Put a classroom away at the end of a term without deleting anything — what archiving does, what students see, and how to bring it back.

When a term ends, a classroom is finished but not worthless: the roster, the links to activities and assessments, the invitations and the history are all still there. **Archiving** puts the classroom away without deleting any of it. Students stop seeing it, it stops counting toward your plan's classroom limit, and you can bring it back exactly as it was with one click.

<Note>
  Archive is the reversible alternative to **Delete**. Delete removes the classroom, its enrollments and its history for good. Archive changes nothing about the data — it only changes who can see it.
</Note>

## What archiving does

* The classroom moves out of your Classrooms page into the **Archived** view.
* It no longer counts toward your plan's classroom limit, which frees a slot for a new class.
* Students no longer see it on their dashboard. Its public page, classroom code and any invitation links show an "archived" notice instead of the classroom.
* Enrollments stay in place, so nobody has to re-join when you restore it.
* Editing is paused: the name, description, code and roster can't be changed until you restore.

## Archiving a classroom

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the classroom">
    On the classroom page, click **Archive** beside **Delete**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Decide what happens to its activities">
    The confirmation shows how many activities live in the classroom and offers **Also archive its activities**, ticked by default. Leave it ticked to free those plan slots too; untick it if you still use the activities elsewhere. Archived activities remember which classroom they came from.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Confirm">
    Click **Archive**. A red banner on the classroom page confirms it, with a **Restore classroom** button ready when you need it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What students see

Nothing. An archived classroom disappears from the student dashboard and from the list of enrolled classes. A student who opens an old link, or types the classroom code, sees *This classroom has been archived by its teacher* and nothing else. Work they submitted is untouched and reappears when you restore.

## Restoring a classroom

Either click **Restore classroom** in the banner on the classroom page, or open the **Archived** view on your Classrooms page and click **Restore** on the classroom's card.

Restoring is the undo of archiving:

* The classroom returns to your active list and to every enrolled student's dashboard. The classroom code works again.
* Activities that were archived along with it are re-linked, with student work intact. This is different from restoring a single activity from your Archived activities, which starts it fresh for a new class.
* Restoring counts against your plan again. If you're at your classroom limit, restore is refused until you archive or delete another classroom, or upgrade. If the activities would push you past your activity limit, the classroom still restores and the activities that don't fit stay archived — the message tells you how many.

## Frequently asked

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Is there a limit to how long a classroom can stay archived?">
    No. Archived classrooms are kept indefinitely, and nothing is purged automatically.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can students still open the assessments and study guides that were in it?">
    Not from their dashboard — the classroom and everything listed under it is hidden. A direct link to an assessment still follows that assessment's own due date and close rules, so use those if you want it shut too.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="I archived a classroom by mistake.">
    Restore it. Nothing was deleted, and students won't notice anything beyond the class briefly disappearing.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Can I archive several classrooms at once?">
    Not yet — archive them one at a time from each classroom's page.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

See also [Archive & Restore](/teachers/activities/archive-and-restore) for activities, and [Create Classroom](/teachers/classrooms/create-classroom).