Should there be a mandate to eliminate courses from an institution’s LMS, Canvas Admins have other options available to them outside of hard-deleting a course…and losing all student content within the course. For a few years I have been able to leverage a process that:
Removes an older course from enrolled students and teacher dashboards.
Allows access to course content to be imported into a sandbox course, if needed.
Takes less than two hours to complete.
Doesn’t require a third-party product or license fee.
I made a 10-minute video sharing an overview of my process archiving courses in Canvas, but not deleting them.
-Chris
