How to suspend or delete courses and categories

The below steps will instruct you on how to suspend or delete courses or course categories.

Suspending a category

Deleting a category

Suspending a course

Deleting a course

Step 1. Select Administration

Step 2. Select Courses

Step 3. Select Manage course

Please note, you can also reach this destination by selecting administration > site administration > courses tab > courses > manage courses and categories.

You will now see a list of course categories in the left column and a list of courses belonging to the selected category in the right hand column.

Suspending a category

To suspend a category, select the eye icon that appears in the same row as the category you are wanting to suspend.

When you see a strike through the eye, the course is suspended. Click on the eye with a strike to unsuspend the course.

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Suspended -

Please note, all courses housed within the category will also be suspended. When the category is once again made active, all the courses within it will also be made active again.

Deleting a category

Step 1. Click on the COG icon that appears in the same row as the category that you are wanting to delete.

Step 2. From the dropdown, select Delete.

Step 3. If your category contains courses, you can elect to move these to another category or delete all. Please note, deletions are permanent.

Field	Options
What to do	Move contents to another category Delete all - cannot be undone
Move into	Choose from the list of other categories that you have in your LMS

 

Step 3. Select Delete

Step 4. Select Continue

The category has now been deleted.

Suspending a course

Select the category from which you’d like to suspend the course/courses from. If you’d like to suspend all courses within the category, suspending the category will also suspend all courses within the category.

Step 1. To suspend a category, select the eye icon that appears in the same row as the category you are wanting to suspend. When you see a strike through the eye, the course is suspended. Click on the eye with a strike to un-suspend the course.

Active -

Suspended -

Deleting a course

Step 1. Click on the Rubbish bin icon that appears in the same row as the category that you are wanting to delete.

Step 2. Ensure that you want to  are deleting the correct course. Select Delete.

Step 3. Your course has now been deleted. Select continue to go back to the manage courses page.

Please be aware. All deletions are permanent.