Archive Courses without Deleting Them

[cpowell2]

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 amateurish 10-minute video sharing an overview of my process archiving courses in Canvas, but not deleting them: https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/archiving-courses-in-canvas-without 

Best wishes,

Chris

[JenniferLash]

I appreciate your excellent use-case demo. Thank you!

[ProfessorBeyrer]

Thanks @cpowell2 for sharing this video and your process. I especially appreciate the recommendation to try it with one course first! 

[ksurchek]

Hi Chris -- Looks like the video is no longer available. I'd love to see it if you have a fresh link. Thanks!

[cpowell2]

Hi @ksurchek - if this link still doesn't work: https://www.canvasinsider.blog/p/archiving-courses-in-canvas-without

email me at canvasinsider [at] protonmail [dot] com. I'll send you the original 🙂

Cheers,

Chris