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Reuse

Introduction

If you already made an activity for one class and want to give the same activity to another class, you do not have to build it again. GradeChum lets you copy any activity you made, from this class or another one, and change what you need before you save it.

The copy is a new, separate activity. Editing or deleting it never touches the original. In this article, let's explore how to reuse an old activity in GradeChum.

Steps

Note: You must have already created the class that gets the copy. In a class another teacher shared with you with view-only permission, the Create activity button is hidden, so you cannot reuse an activity there.

To reuse an activity in GradeChum, follow these steps:

  1. Open the class that should get the activity. Under the Activities tab, click Create activity > Reuse old activity. In a class with no activities yet, the same button sits under "Hi there! Create your first activity for your students". The Reuse Old Activity modal opens.
  1. The modal starts on the activities of the class you are in. To reuse one from another class, open the Class: dropdown and pick that class, or choose All Classes to see them all. You can type a class name in the dropdown to find it.
  1. To find an activity by name, type in Search. Each card shows the activity's class and when it was created.
  1. If the list reads No existing activities found, the class you picked has no activities matching your search. Switch Class: to another class or to All Classes, or change your search.

Note: The list only shows activities from classes of the same kind as this one, so a regular class lists regular classes and a mock board class lists mock board classes. Classes other teachers shared with you are listed too. Changing the search or the class clears the activity you picked.

  1. To check an activity's items before you pick it, click View activity items on its card. When it is the one you want, click Select this activity at the bottom of the preview.
  1. Pick the activity you want to reuse. See below:
a. Reuse an activity
  1. Click the activity's card to select it. Its circle fills in.
  1. Click Select. It stays disabled until you pick an activity.
b. Reuse an older activity set

Activities made before sets were kept inside one activity show as a group, with the number of sets beside its name, such as "(3 sets)". The cards inside it, "(Set A)", "(Set B)" and so on, are grayed out and cannot be picked on their own.

  1. Click the group's name to select the whole set.
  1. Click Select. GradeChum copies the group's Set A as your new activity. Once it is created, you can generate new shuffled sets for it.
  1. The Create Activity modal opens with everything filled in from the activity you picked. Change anything you want: the name, the type, the tests, the items and the rubrics. The copy starts with no results, so you can still change its type.

Note: A reused online activity gets a new password. If you kept the original's due date and it has passed, saving shows Due date and time cannot be in the past. Pick a new date. Learning outcome tags on the items come along when this class's course has learning outcomes, so Activity ILO Summary opens for your review when you save. A reused activity is not saved as a draft, so closing the modal before you create it discards your changes.

  1. If you teach the same lesson in other classes, open Optional step and pick the classes that should also get a copy. See Linked classes for how the copies stay in step.

  1. Click Create activity at the bottom of the modal. When Activity ILO Summary opens first, read the table, then click Create activity there.

  2. Finally, for a handwritten activity, GradeChum asks whether you want to generate shuffled item sets. Click Autogenerate set/s and choose how many to add (see Create sets), or click No thanks. An online or outside GradeChum activity shows a Success modal instead. Click Finish.

Reuse an activity with sets in a mock board class

In a mock board class, an activity with more than one set is reused whole, sets and all, under a new name:

  1. Select the activity in Reuse Old Activity and click Select. The Rename Activity Set modal opens and asks you to "Enter a new name for this activity set you wish to reuse."
  1. Type the new name in Activity name. The name is required: leaving it empty shows This field is required.
  1. Finally, click Create activity. The modal closes and the new activity appears on your Activities tab. If it fails, GradeChum shows Failed to reuse activity set. so you can try again.

Note: Your school's administrator can turn off reusing activity sets that have a shading test. Create activity is then grayed out with Your administrator has disabled the reuse of activity sets with shading tests.

And that's how you reuse an activity in GradeChum! Next, let's explore the things you need to do to give this activity to your students.

Last updated September 21, 2026