Delete a course

In this section, you will learn how to delete a course

Course in Draft

When you first create the course, its status will be in Draft. When the course is in Draft, you have two options: publish it or delete it. If you want to delete a course still in draft, you can do so clicking on the “Actions” button and then on “Delete the learning”.

It is important to highlight that once the course is deleted, it cannot be recovered.

Once the course is deleted, the corresponding SharePoint page will be moved to the recycle bin of your SharePoint backend. That said, users won’t be able to access the course anymore.

Published course

If you want to delete a published course, you must first click on “Unpublished,” by doing so the course will return to Draft and you will be able to delete it or publish it again. Indeed, when a course is published, you can no longer delete it, in fact you will see that the “Delete learning” option is turned off

This extra step has been designed because, if the course is public, it means that end users can see it in SharePoint and can take it. To avoid inconsistencies, instead of deleting it directly, it is turned back to draft and therefore no longer visible to end users.