To delete all course content from your Canvas course:
Unfortunately, we don’t delete courses from Canvas. We recommend unpublishing the course or simply following the directions above to remove it from your Dashboard.
How do I delete a course as an instructor? 1 Open Settings. In Course Navigation, click the Settings link. 2 Permanently Delete Course. 3 Delete Course. 4 View Confirmation.
If you only want to remove the course from Courses & Groups in the Global Navigation, you can change the course end date, or if you have permission, conclude your course instead. Before you delete your course, make sure you have a record of your Course ID number. Administrators can restore deleted courses if they know the Course ID number.
It will probably be the one time you delete a course without exporting and saving a copy to your hard drive that will be “THE TIME” you realized that it contained some only copy of a file that was important. So take the few moments it takes to export a copy of this material to a safe place before proceeding to permanently delete this material.
From your course home page, click the settings tab at the bottom of the course menu. Once in settings, there will be options for both deleting or ending the course on the menu on the right side of the page. Click whichever one to end or delete your course.
Select a Home Page, then click Choose and Publish Once you publish your Canvas course site, you do not have to republish it again if you add new content. You only have to publish the site once. You can unpublish the course by going to the Home page and clicking the Unpublish button.
If the course does not contain student grades you can simply click the “Unpublish” button located on the course home page. If the course includes student grades then the “Unpublish” button will not appear.
To unpublish a module, hover over the published icon. The hover text will confirm you want to unpublish the module. Click the icon to confirm.
To delete all course content from your Canvas course: 1 Navigate to the course with the content you wish to delete. 2 From the course navigation menu, select Settings. 3 In the "Settings" sidebar at the right, select Delete All Course Content. You will be prompted to confirm. To proceed, click Reset Course Content, or click Cancel to cancel. 4 If you selected Reset Course Content, a completely new course shell with a new ID (the number following "https://iu.instructure.com/courses/...") will be generated. All users previously enrolled in the course will remain enrolled.
To reapply the IU defaults: Navigate to the course with the content you wish to delete. From the course navigation menu, select Settings. In the "Settings" sidebar at the right, select Reapply Default Settings. Read the information in the pop-up window and click Submit to proceed or Cancel to cancel. If you clicked Submit, a template will be ...
Completely resetting your course is a two-step process. First, you'll delete the existing course content, and then you'll reapply the default settings for the course. You can opt to do either step without the other, but if you decide to do both, you should carry them out in the order specified below. Back to top.
When you reapply the settings in your Canvas course, the settings and navigation in your course will be replaced with those in the default template. Reapply settings before you start creating or importing course content. If you apply it afterward:
When new SIS and manually created courses are generated in Canvas, the course home page, navigation, and settings are automatically updated to reflect defaults established by Indiana University or your campus, school, or department (for more about course defaults, see Distribute templates to Canvas courses in your campus, school, or department ).
You may overwrite your course syllabus or other content in your course with content in the default template. If you already created content in your course site, you may want to consider making a copy of your course before applying the template. If you made customizations to the settings or navigation of the course, you may need to reset them.
Which courses display on your Dashboard when you log in can be managed by clicking the ‘Courses’ icon then selecting ‘All Courses’. The stars on the left are the way you select which courses you want to see when you log in on the Dashboard.
The courses for each semester or term will be managed within the system. You will eventually see them removed from your list. While the system will add and eventually remove these you may want to use the ‘Favorites’ star feature from above to remove course shells you are no longer actively teaching from the Dashboard.
You have the ability to delete these shells from the Settings page in your navigation.
Removing a course from the Dashboard simply removes it from that view, it will not remove it from the all courses page.
Unfortunately, we don’t delete courses from Canvas. We recommend unpublishing the course or simply following the directions above to remove it from your Dashboard.