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Deleting a class
The one destructive action on the class page, described honestly.
There is no undo, and no archive to hide behind.
What it takes
The dialog lists it plainly: this permanently deletes the class, all its student IDs, every learning record and attempt for those students, and the class whiteboard. Recreating the same class starts empty. This cannot be undone.
Read that second-to-last sentence twice. Recreating a class with the same name and the same pasted IDs does not bring anything back — the handles are new, and the history is gone.
There is no archive
Unlike deliveries and questions, classes have no archive. Delete is the only removal, and it is total. That asymmetry is worth knowing before you tidy up at the end of a year.
For a class you have finished with but might want the records of, the answer is to leave it. A class that is not being used costs nothing except a row in a list, and it counts against your class allowance only while it exists.
Where the allowance is the pressure, check the numbers on the class creation page first — Quest allows 30 classes and Academy 150, which is more than most teachers reach in a year.
Before you delete
- Export anything you want to keep. The analytics exports take the class report and the activity as CSV.
- Check whether an organisation colleague relies on those learners. In an organisation a learner may be in another teacher's class too.
- Save your own handle-to-name list elsewhere if you have not already — the platform never had it.
What to do instead
Most reasons for deleting have a smaller answer.
| You want to | Do this |
|---|---|
| Stop learners using their links | Stop the links, or reset passwords. The class stays. |
| Tidy a long list | Leave it. Nothing forces a class out of existence. |
| Remove one learner | Rotate or stop their links rather than deleting the class. |
| Start a new year with the same group | A new class. The old one keeps its records. |