Google - Take It With You


Guide to Transfer or Download Your GoogleEDU Content
Your Account Your Stuff  Take It With You

Educational G Suite accounts are typically closed when students are no longer enrolled or educators leave a school. This means that students who transfer or graduate no longer have access to the files and resources in G Suite. 

The end of the school year brings new changes for many students or staff members. 
  • Maybe a family is moving to a new school or district.
  • Maybe a student is graduating from high school or college. 
  • Maybe a teacher is moving to a new district or changing careers. 
  • Maybe an educator who is retiring after many years of service. 
If you are graduating, retiring, or leaving your school you should either “Transfer content” or “Download data” before leaving their school. You might just want to create a backup copy of your Google for Education Account data. Once it is gone it is most likely gone for good. The good news is that Google makes the process pretty painless. 

Transfer your content from Drive and Gmail

Copy and transfer your emails and Google Drive files to a personal Google Account.

1. Visit this site: https://takeout.google.com/transfer

2. Follow the on-screen instructions to copy and transfer your school drive and email stuff to a personal Google account. 
If you need a little additional help with this process, please visit this page: Copy content from your school account to another account

Download your data from all G Suite products

Export a copy of content in your Google Account to back it up or use it with a service outside of Google. This process allows you to choose what is copied for you to download.

1. Visit this site: https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

2. Follow the on-screen instructions to create an archive of your data.

If you need a little additional help with this process, please visit this page: Download your data

Right now the one thing that you can't make a copy of is "New" Google Sites. If you have a site that was created using the new Google Sites, you will need to either transfer ownership or make a copy of the site. 

Learn more about your data & personalization
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If you need more help, Eric Curts also has a great step by step overview of the process.

If you have questions or additional solutions, please post in the comments below. 

1 comment:

  1. If the content is created on school time...and let's face it, any time you work on content, that's school time because we're all expected to prepare outside of class, including nights and weekends...then it quite possibly belongs to the school, not to the teacher. Gotta read the fine print, though.

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