How to delete a Workspace in Hāpara Follow

This article for teachers and administrators explains the steps for deleting a Workspace, what happens after it is deleted, and when you should choose to archive a Workspace instead.

In this article:

• Overview
• How to delete a Workspace from Hāpara
• What happens when you delete a Hāpara Workspace
• When to archive a Hāpara Workspace instead
• Additional tips

Overview

In Hāpara Workspace, you can delete an individual Workspace from the My Workspaces tab or from an opened Workspace. 

Only the Workspace creator can delete it. 

Deleting removes the Workspace from Hāpara, and it can't be recovered. 

The Google Drive folder and files from the Workspace remain in Drive, though, and can continue to be accessed. 

How to delete a Workspace from Hāpara

1. From the My Workspaces tab

• In the list of Workspaces, find the Workspace you want to delete.

• Click the three dots to open the menu.

• Select Delete.

• Click the red Delete Workspace button to confirm that you want to delete it. Note: This action will permanently delete the Workspace.

2. From an opened Workspace

• In the Workspace, click the three dots on the top right to open the menu.

• Select Delete.

• Click the red Delete Workspace button to confirm that you want to delete it. Note: This action will permanently delete the Workspace.

What happens when you delete a Hāpara Workspace

• The Workspace is removed from Hāpara Workspace.

• The linked Google Drive folder and files are NOT deleted and remain in Drive.

• Only the original creator of the Workspace can delete it.

• Deleting is permanent and cannot be recovered.

   

When to archive a Hāpara Workspace instead

• Archive a Workspace in Hāpara when you want to stop students from working on it but you want to keep the Workspace structure available to unarchive later.

• Archiving moves related student folders into an “Archived” area in Google Drive and prevents further work on that Workspace.

   

Additional tips

• Do you need to remove a Workspace from a collection instead of deleting the Workspace altogether? Click on the Our Library tab in Workspace > Click on the collection. > Find the Workspace you want to remove from the collection. > Click on the Actions button.> Select Add to collections. > Deselect the collection(s). > Click Apply.

• If students still need to access Google Drive files from the Workspace after you delete it, the Google Drive folder and files remain in their Google Drive.

• For end-of-year cleanup, consider archiving classes and archiving Workspaces rather than deleting them.