How do I set up Bookroo for a new school year?

Start each year with a new class, move your returning students into it, and let last year's class end. Last year's reading stays where it was.

Steps

1. Create this year's class. Use Create class in the class switcher at the top of the sidebar (Start a free class). Using Clever or Google Classroom? Import this year's section or course.
2. Move returning students. In last year's class, go to Roster → … next to the student → Move to another class, and pick the new class. You can also move a student to a colleague's class at your school.
3. Add new students on the new class's Roster (Add students).
4. Set the class up again. Settings, custom rewards and challenges belong to a class, so set them in the new one (Class settings, explained).
5. Let last year's class end. In its Settings, under About this class, click no end date (or its end date) and pick one. Or click archive it under End of the year to end it now. A class only ends on a date you've saved: while it says no end date, the date the picker opens on is a suggestion. The day after the end date, it's archived: hidden from dashboards and students, with nothing deleted. Find it later under Show N hidden on your Dashboard.

What carries over

Keeping the same class instead?

You can. In Settings, under About this class, click the dates in "running from … to …": set the start date to the first day of school (class stats count from it) and the end date to the last. Under Reading and points, change "the Word Vault counts words from every year" to earned since the start date to restart the class word count. Remove students who left with Remove reader.

Points don't reset. To clear them, email schools@bookroo.com with your class name.