- Click the Manage tab.
- Locate the Data Management section.
- Click the Data Maintenance link.
- Use the check boxes to choose from the lists what you wish to delete, for whom and when.
- Be aware that deleted data cannot be recovered!
- Click the Delete Items button.
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Data Maintenance allows you to delete data from your course for various items, by certain users, before a certain date. This is useful if you have imported content containing student data and you wish to clear it out, or perhaps you use the same course space from offering to offering and need to clear out a previous offerings data.
From within your course, click the Manage tab. Locate the Data Management heading and click on Data Maintenance to enter the Data Maintenance editor.
Your next choices will determine: What is deleted? For which group of users? and When?
Under Delete these items..., you will see 7 check boxes. If you want to delete any of these items, check their box. Below are the description for each box:
Course Roster Entries: This will remove those people from the roster. Note that students enrolled through the Registrar will be put back on the list when the Registrar's jobs run if the course is still live.
Tracking Data: This is any information tracking used to see when students accessed any part of the course.
Instructor Notes: This includes any notes you have made about your students when grading them.
Chat Logs: This is for any logged chat activity you have performed in your course.
Quiz, Survey and Drop Box Submissions: This is for any data submitted to any one of these items.
Gradebook Grades: This is for any grades associated with the student.
Attendance: This will remove attendance information.
Under For these users... This is where you choose who's data you delete. You have the option to choose Everyone, those enrolled or not enrolled in the course, or specific people within the course.
If they occurred... pertains to the timeframe for which you would like to delete the items you selected above. To delete all the data for all time, click the radio button for At Any Time. If you just want data deleted prior to a specific date, click that radio button and select a date and time.
When you are absolutely ready to delete these options, and are sure this is what you want to do, click the Delete Items button at the bottom of the page. Please know that data deleted with this tool cannot be recovered.