Hi Fiona

Can I suggest you don't.  We got burnt some years ago (Moodle) and found when course pages are deleted it stuffed up our Records of Learning and in a few instances lead to staff having to repeat courses.

What we now do is we have a hidden Category call 'Archived courses', in which we don't allow staff access, and we re-name the courses added to it as  'archived_<original name>'.  The Record of Learning still reflects the course outcome. If the staff member clicks on the course name they get the 'This course is currently unavailable to students' message.

Also, we've centralised the archiving process.  Each six months we archive based on the following criteria:

A course page is archived on the following criteria:

• No access in 12 months (respecting the annual cycle of much of our work)
• No access in 6 months - where there are less than 10 staff enrolments OR the course is not visible to staff.

There are occasions where we learn of courses on the same subject (despite the Course publishing criteria!) and work out which one is preferred. In this instance the practice is to either; Archive the non-preferred course (particularly if there doubt over the current course owner), or move it into the Development Area (which also excludes staff from seeing the course).

Exclusions:

• The course is 'Required' for a Competency in a Individual Development Plan Role Template
• If there are future date Face-to-Face session offered
• The course is in the Development area

Hope this is of some value.

Cheers
Austen