Manage Courses – Delete (and restore) courses

The Manage Courses tool enables Local Canvas Coordinators (LCCs) or Unit Adminstrators to delete a Canvas course; the central Canvas team is able to restore a deleted course on request, if required.

 

To delete a course:

  1. Access the Manage Courses tool from your Admin menu.
  2. Search for the required course.
  3. Click on the Delete option within the three-dot menu.
  4. Click on the Yes, delete the course button in the validation window that pops up.

Note: NB there are ‘controls’ relating to the ability to delete courses. It is not possible to delete a course if it is:

  • More than 120 days old; or
  • Is published; or
  • Has been rolled over.

If you need to delete such a course, please contact your learning technologist via canvas@it.ox.ac.uk.

To restore a course (central Canvas team only):

If the course has been deleted mistakenly, please send a message to canvas@it.ox.ac.uk (providing the course URL) and ask for it to be restored.

Learning technologists have the permissions to restore a deleted course, according to the following steps (NB: to restore a course you can start at step 8 below, if you know the course ID):

  1. Navigate to Reports in Manage Courses.
  2. Select the Deleted Courses report to run.
  3. Click on Generate Report.
  4. Click on View once the report has generated.

Then:

  1. Find the deleted course in the report.
  2. Copy the course id of the course from the report.
  3. Click on the Click here to restore the course link.

Then:

  1. The Restore courses tab opens up after clicking on the above link (see screenshot below).
  2. Paste the course ID into the Course ID field.
  3. Click Find.
  4. Check that this is the course you wish to restore.
  5. Click Restore.