At the end of the school year, it’s a good idea to archive the teams you’ve made for classes in Microsoft Teams as you prepare for next year’s classes. Archiving a team removes the team from your “Active Teams” list and freezes team activity. All content associated with the team will still be saved and you will be able to access it at any time. This includes files, conversations, grades, and assignments that you can re-use later.
Archiving teams with SDS
If you are an IT Admin planning to use SDS to archive teachers’ classes, please give teachers notice of when classes will be archived. You can share the following information with them so they know where to find archived classes from prior school years, and how to re-use assignments for future teaching.
What happens when a team is archived
Archiving does not delete a team. In an archived team, all activity in the team is frozen. This includes the ability to add or edit channels, post messages, or create new assignments. However, team owners can still add or remove team members and update roles. The team will no longer appear with your view of active teams.
Manually archiving a team
If you are an educator and your IT Admin will not be using SDS to archive class teams, you can archive teams on your own.
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Select More options
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Select More options
To view a team you’ve archived, select More options
Restoring an archived team
Make a team active again by navigating to the Archived section and selecting More options
Re-use assignments from archived teams
Microsoft Teams allows you to re-use assignments you’ve created in any team, whether it’s from an archived class or not. To re-use an assignment:
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Navigate to your current class, then select Assignments.
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Select Create > From existing.
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Follow the steps to choose the original class and the assignment you’re re-using.
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Fill in or edit assignment details as usual and choose classes or individual students to assign the work to.
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Select Assign.
