Google Classroom "courseState" = Declined and provisioned

[panderson]

When doing a Class export using Gam (gam print courses todrive),  there are some classes with  the "courseStates" of "Active, Archived, Declined and Provisioned".  What exactly does the "Declined or Provisioned" mean?  Should they be archived along with the Active classes or should they just be removed/deleted? Are they classes/courses that were set up but never actually used or should they be archived along with all the active courses?  (We have our classes auto created from our SIS).

[steve]

When a class is auto-provisioned for staff, they still have to press an "accept" button within classroom to take ownership. I think if they just archive or delete it without doing that it's "declined". I would think you could just delete those, the teachers will never have been in the class (that's what we do with them).

[panderson]

That makes sense, do you also just delete the "Provisioned" ones that no one does anything with?  I am assuming that the reason they say provisioned is because the teachers either don't use Google Classroom or just ignore the class is they do.  I hate to archive thousands of classes that don't have anything in them.

[steve · Accepted solution]

Yes, I delete anything with status "PROVISIONED" or "DECLINED", and archive the rest.

[Kim_Nilsson]

For the most part I would agree with @steve here - apart from the risk that you may actually lose some Classrooms that were intended to be transferred to someone else, but never were.