When districts share students, teachers, and classes via an automatic-sync integration (Clever, Classlink, LTI, Google Classroom, etc.), there are some behaviors of our platform that districts should be aware of when classes change during the school year, such as when classes change from Fall to Spring semester. Typically when these rosters change from one semester to the next, they are treated as entirely different classes.
- Students will loose access to content. Just as when a classes change from one school year to the next, students will loose access to any previously-added content when rosters change from one semester to the next. Even if teachers are not done with a particular course, those previously-added courses will be removed from students' accounts. As a result, teachers will need to add any needed courses to these new classes when the rosters are shared with our platform.
- Any in progress assignments will be lost. Before rosters are updated, please ensure there are no outstanding assignments for students; ie, all assignments should be submitted by students and graded by teachers before the end of the semester.
- Students will loose access to past assignments and grades. Teachers will still retain access to past assignments and grades, but students will not.
Additional Considerations:
- You can manually extend the end date of classes, which will allow teachers to determine when prior classes truly end.
- In some cases, new rosters are not created from one semester to the next; instead, only the class title/name will change. This case is rare, but items 1-3 noted above will not apply.