Bulk Delete Courses

[KathyBaldwin2]

I need help deleting courses out of Canvas to clean up the site. How do I bulk delete over 2000 courses that are no longer being used? They do not have SIS codes.

[blopes · Accepted solution]

Hi @KathyBaldwin2 

Unfortunately, if the courses don't have SIS ids you don't have the option to bulk delete them. You would need to add SIS ids to the courses to be able to bulk delete them. 

With no SIS ids, you would need to manually delete them individually. 

[KathyBaldwin2]

Thanks for your reply, but this is not the solution.

[Ron_Bowman]

@KathyBaldwin2 -

How is @blopes answer not a solution to your question?  I guess it depends on what you call a solution.  The solution is to bulk delete courses without sis ids you have to do each one individually - so there is no capability to bulk delete courses.  Or, I guess you could say that the correct solution is currently there is no way to bulk delete courses without sis-ids.

Ron

[Michelle-KPS]

I realize this is old but just in case someone else stumbles here:

You can use a csv import to add SIS ids and then use the option to bulk delete:)  It only adds a couple minutes and saves a ton of time.