I am a teacher and have a free account. I use miro in my class and have students set up whiteboards as part of a team project. I am preparing for a new class and would like to clean up my account. I’d like to keep many of the boards as examples and delete the others. Many boards are empty and I think they were set up by mistake, these are all called “My First Board.” I’d like to delete these to make room for new ones. I am the owner of the account but the students are the owners of the boards, including these empty ones. How can I delete these boards?
@Patricia Sigler - Either the board owner, i.e., the student, would need to delete the board or you would would first need to remove/delete the board owner from your Free Plan team. When you do that, you will be prompted to Delete user or also Delete user and content:
Once their boards are gone, you would add the student back to the team.
NOTE: If you continue to use the Free Plan team, always make sure everyone else on the team has the role of Member and that you are the only Team Admin! Otherwise they could delete you from the team!
Miro Education Plan
If you didn’t know, you could be eligible for the Miro Education Plan which is a 100-person/member, fully featured Miro team that is FREE FOR LIFE for teachers! (There is a 10-person team free for 2-years for students).
You can apply here and you could hear back within a few days. If approved, your existing Free Plan team will be upgraded to this new team - note: You would then only be able to invite 99 other people to the team compared to the “unlimited” members on a Free Plan team, however, you will have most of the features of a paid plan.
Projects - once you upgrade, you’ll have access to Projects, which you could use like “folders” to organize boards. You could even create a Project for each student and then add the student as a member of that Project and then only you and that student would be able to see the boards in that Project.
Permissions - If you do upgrade your Free Plan to the Education Plan, come back to this post and following these instructions! Paid/Education plans allow for private boards and Projects. In your Free Plan, all team members can see all boards! In the Education Plan, you can set a board or Project’s Sharing settings so that only the person who created them can see it, e.g. of a board in my team that only I can see:
So, what you could (and should!) do in your newly upgraded Free-to-Education Plan is set the team permissions as follows:
Once done, only the creator of boards and Projects will be able to see them and would them have to either:
explicitly add others/share the items with others on the team
or enable “Anyone at lteam name] team can view/edit/comment etc.
This helps ensure that things remain private and keeps everyone’s dashboards “cleaner”, so everyone doesn’t see everyone else’s stuff!
