Retrieving Deleted Announcements

[MeredithWilbur]

Is there any way to retrieve deleted announcements? I believe one of my TAs accidentally deleted all of my prescheduled announcements, and I cannot find a way to restore them.

Thanks!

[james_whalley · Accepted solution]

@MeredithWilbur If you go to the homepage for the course and add "/undelete" onto the end of the url, it will take you to a page where you can recover deleted content. Sometimes not everything you want to recover is there, but undeleted some content and refreshing the page will reveal more content. There is no pagination for "/undelete" and the amount of content available on the page is sometimes limited.

[james_whalley · Accepted solution]

@MeredithWilbur If you go to the homepage for the course and add "/undelete" onto the end of the url, it will take you to a page where you can recover deleted content. Sometimes not everything you want to recover is there, but undeleted some content and refreshing the page will reveal more content. There is no pagination for "/undelete" and the amount of content available on the page is sometimes limited.

[LauraEV]

Do you know if restoring deleted announcements that were already posted will renotify? And how long do I have to be able to restore something before it is completely lost? 

[james_whalley]

I am not sure if it would re-notify students. My instinct is that it would not. As for how long you have to undelete an item, I do not know of any limits to this.

[MeredithWilbur]

I do not believe my students were renotified. It may give you the option of whether to or not, similar to when you edit an announcement but I cannot remember. As far as how far back, I'm not sure how far it extends but I was able to see announcements from six weeks ago. Hope this helps!

[MackenzieDennis · Accepted solution]

Howdy! Thanks for the useful info. Is there a way to identify who has deleted an announcement? We have a rogue instructor who is deleting (inadvertently or intentionally)? Thanks! 

[james_whalley]

I don't believe there is an easy way to tell, even for Instructure.