Recover deleted material in Canvas

April 12, 2018

It happens to everyone eventually: we accidentally delete a file, assignment, discussion, or module that we really should not have. Happily, Canvas keeps track of deleted items. Get into your course and look at the URL displayed in the browser. It has the format: https://canvas.iastate.edu/courses/(courseID#)/(something). Remove everything after the courseID then add ‘/undelete’ so you have something that looks like: https://canvas.iastate.edu/courses/29348/undelete. When you hit Enter, a list of deleted items that can be restored is shown. After restoring an element, inspect it carefully as it’s possible that some associated data may have been lost for good.

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