Delete a Course with Free for Teacher FFT Account

[becky10]

Delete a Course option does not appear on the FFT accounts. Plus, when a user asked a question, they were told it was an administrator option issue. But we don't have administrators for FFT accounts. How do we do this?

I have too many classes and am out of space. I'd love to know how to do this. Thanks!

[KevinMeredith]

Hi @becky10, the Delete this Course option appears in the Course settings menu for each individual course. You can navigate to each course you want to delete, scroll to settings, and look on the right-hand menu to see these options:

Hope this helps.

[becky10]

Thank you @KevinMeredith  for replying. I'm attaching screenshots of my courses. I'm including  a course that has been concluded and a course that is open. In both of these, there is not a "Delete this Course" option. 

I'm looking under course, and then settings. This is what comes up on the right side of the page.

Also - do courses I observe count against my free limit? Currently, I'm using somehow 261% of my limit! I don't know how this happened. But now it won't let me attach any files. I don't want to have to delete files from each course one at a time. 

Thanks again!

[becky10]

In order to save space, I went into old courses, looked at files, created a "Trash" folder, dragged all the files into it, and then deleted the trash file. I did this for a dozen courses. Unfortunately, the amount of storage didn't change at all. 

[reid_mclain]

The storage limit is on a per course basis not for the entire account. So per course, and per user/group in the course. So deleting old courses will probably not change the storage for the class that you are having trouble with. You should be able to go into the Files menu (in the specific course) and see which ones are taking too much space by sorting with size and deleting the big files that are causing problems. 

• You have a 500 MB limit for the entire course
• you have 50 MB per user/group in the course  (That is what it looks like you are over in your screenshot) -- it is here that there are too many files. 

I got that information from this PDF  and 

Canvas is not really a good "file depository" and there is not enough space for it to be one (even for the paid accounts). My suggestion for better practice is if you have to have so many attachments (files) in the class is to store your PDFs and files somewhere else. You can easily link or embed these external documents in the pages, assignments and still be able to keep them organized well in Canvas. When I was new to Canvas many years ago this is what I did, and I rarely use Canvas for storing Files unless it is necessary and I have not come close to going over my limit in years.  

• For PDFs, documents, and photos, use DropBox, Google Drive, or other storage services that allow linking or embedding. 
• For videos: Use YouTube or Flipgrid and embed or link the video. 

The other option is to make the content of some of your PDFs and Documents as Canvas Pages instead of uploading them in Canvas. 

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For the deleting course, I am not sure why you cannot see delete in the settings, because I can see the same options in my FFT account. that @KevinMeredith  shows in the screenshot posted. Perhaps someone else is the “owner” of the FFT account and you have been added as a teacher role to the classes? If that is the case, I don’t think you can delete the classes unless you create them yourself. (But I am not 100% certain since there are many unknown variables, but that might be why, and why you see the 50MB limit from your screenshot) rather than the 500MB limit per course in your file menu. 

[becky10]

@reid_mclain - Thank you! For some reason, the numbers have been reset! I now am only using 2 or 3% in my classes. (I don't know what made the change...) 

I still can't delete old courses, but it doesn't appear that I need to now.

I love all the tips for not storing actual files there. I appreciate it!