Google Classroom - Deleting Old Groups

[Bankesy]

Good afternoon,

 

Hoping somebody will be able to help me with this as I have no Google Classroom experience but find myself in an environment where it is already setup.

 

Essentially I've managed to understand how my predecessor was creating groups from SIMS in AD via PS script and these have synced themselves to Google Classroom without me doing anything else but they appear to have merged with last years groups.

 

I gather from the vague instructions I was left that maybe I was supposed to delete\archive the existing groups in Google Classroom? Maybe using something called GAM? But this is where I'm lost...

 

Thanks as always to anybody who reads\responds

[tomviv]

Do you mean groups or classes?

GAM is an extremely useful and powerful command line tool to administer Google Workspace. You can use GAM to delete groups, not sure about archiving them. Is that even possible?

I imagine a scheduled job is running on your server which runs a PS script to sync the new groups.

There is lots on the www about GAM. I would go straight for GAMAVD https://github.com/taers232c/GAMADV-XTD3

It is well supported and has an active discussion group https://groups.google.com/g/google-apps-manager

[Bankesy]

@tomviv

 

I mean groups, staff are creating\deleting\archiving classes of their own accord. When they invite students to the classes they do so through the mail enabled groups that have been created in AD.

 

I'll check out the links as deleting the groups on the Google side is exactly what I'm trying to do, I'll also take a look for the scheduled task.

 

Thank you