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Inactivating a Course
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In order to preserve the history of any actions or records, there is no delete function in SmarterU. While it's not possible to delete a course, you can deactivate a course by changing its status to Inactive.
Refer to the Course Status Comparison Chart for more details.
Course Status Comparison Chart
All Course Types
| Active | Inactive |
|---|---|---|
✓ | X | |
Users can be enrolled in the course. This includes manual enrollments, self-enrollments, automated enrollments as part of the group, its learning plans, or subscriptions, or automated re-enrollments. | ✓ | X |
Users can view or comment on course and/or session discussions to which they are subscribed. | ✓ | X |
Course can be assigned to groups from the Add/Edit Group workscreen. | ✓ | ✓ To assign an inactive course to a group from the Add/Edit Group workscreen, you will need to include inactive courses in the grid displayed in the Courses accordion. |
Course can be assigned to a subscription from the Add/Edit Subscription workscreen. | ✓ | ✓ To assign an inactive course to a subscription from the Add/Edit Subscription workscreen, you will need to include inactive courses in the grid displayed in the Courses accordion. |
Course can be associated with a requirement from the Add/Edit Requirement workscreen. | ✓ | X |
Course can be included in reports. | ✓ | ✓ You will need to change the report's Course filter to include inactive courses. |
Course included in weekly emails. | ✓ | X |
Online Courses
| Active | Inactive | |
|---|---|---|
Enrolled users can access the course's contents. This also applies to SCORM courses. | ✓ | X |
Users who previously completed the course will be able to review it. | ✓ | X |
Long answer quiz questions that are ready to be graded display in the Quiz Grading Dashboard. | ✓ | X |
Instructor-Led Courses
| Active | Inactive | |
|---|---|---|
Users can be added to the course or session wait list. | ✓ | X |
Who Has Access
The following users can inactivate a course:
- Course managers (for the courses they manage)
- Administrators or owners.
Inactivating a Course
Before you can change a course's status to Inactive:
- The course cannot be a prerequisite for another course. To determine what course(s) it is a prerequisite for, contact our Success Desk.
- The course cannot be part of a learning plan's requirement.
- You can reactivate a course by setting its status back to Active.
To deactivate a course:
- Edit the online, SCORM, or instructor-led course's settings.
- Expand the Main accordion.
- Set the Status setting to Inactive.
- Click Save.
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