I want to reuse my same Google Classroom class from last year with new students in a new class. How do I sync this updated class to CommonLit?

CommonLit does not recommend that teachers recycle old Google Classroom classes with new students. Reusing classes often leads to problems with any website that is linked to your classroom's old students. Instead, CommonLit recommends that you use Google Classroom's Copy feature to make a copy of your old class. This will allow you to copy all of the work created in a class, but you can change the class roster of students in this copied class.

For instructions from Google Classroom's Help center on how to do this, please see this Google Support article: Copy a class.

Once you have created your new class using Google Classroom's Copy feature and added new students, you will need to import the new class to CommonLit. From your Manage Classes page in CommonLit, click Create a class, then Import from Google Classroom.

After you import the copied class, the CommonLit assignments from your previous class will appear in Google Classroom as drafts with no scheduled date. Importing does not automatically recreate these assignments in CommonLit, so the draft links will not work for students in your new class.

Because of this:

• Do not publish the draft assignments
• Use them only as a reference for which assignments to recreate in CommonLit and post to Google Classroom
• Delete the drafts from Google Classroom once you're done