Thanks for sharing this idea, @sgmarkwith . As it moves forward for broader discussion, users can take advantage of the (admittedly neither foolproof nor officially supported) /undelete feature: Undeleting things in Canvas.
@Stef_retired To be honest, without a trash feature the product seems half done. Without a way to manage or sort pages and other material types. Teachers will delete some things by mistake that is not found in the trick of "undelete".
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