dear community ,
I work on a education version of Miro with my students,
Now I notice that I have a lot of try out boards one my Miro with no content..
seams like the students did try something..
How can I delete all unwanted Boards ?
Thank you all
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Delete Boards
Best answer by Robert Johnson
- Ask your students to delete any boards they are not using
- or – and a more extreme approach is to – remove the students from your team, which will now make you the owner of their content (so you can delete it) and then add the students back to your team.
You may want to review your team’s permission settings for “Default settings for board sharing” and set it to “Only board owners can access”. With this setting on, you will not see any of the students’ boards, unless they change the board sharing settings to either allow just use to see it or all team members to see it. You can read more about this here → https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017572174-Default-sharing-settings
And, taking an out-of-sight-out-of-mind approach, you could change your dashboard settings to only see boards that you have own/have created:
+13- Ask your students to delete any boards they are not using
- or – and a more extreme approach is to – remove the students from your team, which will now make you the owner of their content (so you can delete it) and then add the students back to your team.
You may want to review your team’s permission settings for “Default settings for board sharing” and set it to “Only board owners can access”. With this setting on, you will not see any of the students’ boards, unless they change the board sharing settings to either allow just use to see it or all team members to see it. You can read more about this here → https://help.miro.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017572174-Default-sharing-settings
And, taking an out-of-sight-out-of-mind approach, you could change your dashboard settings to only see boards that you have own/have created:
+1Good question! I don’t know any way to bulk delete boards on the Education Plan (which is also what I have) . . . but one thing is do do is to create a SINGLE “test board” and send the link to everyone for them to test.
In my test board I include lots of examples and then a huge area for them to experiment.
FWIW I always start a new class with a class survey to better understand where they are coming from, where they want to go to -- and I use Miro for this, which is a further getting-up-to-speed-with-Miro exercise.
Hope this helps!
Cheers, Ken
Absolutely terrible design for educators who have to delete or unshare one board at a time from hundreds of boards generated each semester. Miro, if you are going to have an educational option, make it educator friendly.
This has been an issue for years and years. Quit redesigning your icons and make this basic damn function available.
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+1Sorry guys but I am really confused - I don’t see the problem. I have an educator account. I have no students enrolled in any teams - why? If my students want to get their own Miro student accounts - which I encourage them to do - they are free to use them any way they see fit.
If I want my students to have a board, I give them one. I create dozens (and dozens) of boards with my teaching slides - and I share them freely in VIEW mode by sending them the URL.
(Like the old manager joke: if I want your opinion, I will give it to you!)
I only was allotted one Team from my University, so I have to use the same Team every time I teach the course. I use Miro for Labs. Each board has a pre-entered assignment that the students don’t see until the day of the Lab. In a year I might have 30-50 students, and 13 Labs in a semester. I don’t want this year’s students seeing previous year’s students Lab work, but there is no way to hide a Space (ie, 2023 or 2024 Lab work). There is only the option to individually delete or unshare Every. Single. Previous. Board of the hundreds from previous years. It took me 2 days to delete/unshare the previous year’s Lab boards this time. If I don’t do this, the first time new students enter my Miro classroom, they are inundated by hundreds of boards, all with other previous students’ names assigned to them. It’s sloppy and it is a mess, and it is ridiculous.
The only thing I want my students to see and have access to is 30 streamlined boards, numbered, assigned, and ready for them to play with, when they enter Miro for the first time.
AND even putting all those boards in a Space and hiding or deleting the Space DOES NOT DELETE OR HIDE/UNSHARE the boards! There is no workaround at all.
Why Miro won’t allow a batch delete or a batch unshare, or a batch download, of a space/folder/project whatever they want to call it, is unfathomable. It’s simple programming. Word processors from the 1980s could do it. Why can’t Miro?
Instead they keep changing around their icons and adding crap like brand colours and AI. I need a user-friendly alternative if Miro can’t do the bare minimum of batch-delete or batch-unshare.
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+2Hi
Thank you for sharing your experience and for outlining the challenges you're facing with managing boards in your Miro Team. I can see how this situation, especially in an academic setting with a high volume of boards and students, can become overwhelming.
Currently, Miro does not have a native batch delete or batch unshare feature for boards, and I understand how crucial this functionality would be for users like you.
While I don’t have immediate solutions to address all your concerns, your suggestion for batch actions (delete/unshare/download) is valid and something many users would benefit from. I’d like to recommend upvoting this related idea: Bulk delete empty boards. While it focuses on empty boards, the visibility and votes for similar requests can help the Miro team better understand how crucial bulk actions are for users like you.
Eca :)
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