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title: "Inactivating Online Course Content"
slug: "inactivating-online-course-content"
updated: 2022-02-24T21:20:33Z
published: 2022-02-24T21:20:33Z
canonical: "support.smarteru.com/inactivating-online-course-content"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# Inactivating Online Course Content

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 online course content (i.e., [chapters](/v1/docs/chapters), [tasks](/v1/docs/tasks), [questions](/v1/docs/adding-a-quiz-question), or [cards](/v1/docs/adding-a-flashcard-activity#adding-a-card)) you can deactivate them by changing their status to *Inactive*.

Inactive chapters, tasks, questions, or cards will not be visible to any learners. This includes learners currently enrolled in the course and learners who are enrolled in the course after the content is deactivated.

## Inactivating Online Course Content

- Changing the status takes place immediately. You do not need to click **Save**.
- You can reactivate course content by setting its status back to *Active*.
- Deactivating a chapter prevents learners from viewing any content in the chapter. If you need a task in the inactive chapter to still be accessible to learners, [move the task](/v1/docs/moving-chapters-and-tasks) to an active chapter.

To inactivate online course content:

1. From the [Course Builder Dashboard](/v1/docs/course-builder-dashboard), select the chapter, task, question, or card.
2. Set the status to *Inactive*.

Refer to [Viewing Tasks In a Course](/v1/docs/viewing-tasks-in-a-course#viewing-inactive-tasks) for details on viewing inactive course content.

## Related

- [Course Builder Dashboard](/course-builder-dashboard.md)
- [Courses: Online](/courses-online.md)
- [Tasks](/tasks.md)
- [Viewing Tasks In a Course](/viewing-tasks-in-a-course.md)