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Any reason not to remove training materials before archiving a course?

  • January 3, 2026
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I am archiving courses with thousands of users and it’s taking a long time. Of the three training materials associated with each course, two are replaced after the course has been archived. Is there any reason that I should NOT just remove those two that I’m going to replace before I kick off the archiving job? It’s a lot faster when I don’t have all of my training materials assigned, but I don’t know if I’m risking data integrity by doing this. If there isn’t a risk in doing it that way, I might just also remove the third one as well and assign it back from the Central Repository after the job is complete. 

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lrnlab
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  • January 5, 2026

I’m sure you know that once you archive an enrolment the data at learning object level is no longer available for reporting however I’m not sure where that is stored and whether we will ever get access to that. I would err on the side of caution and just deactivate (unpublished) the old content but leave it attached to the course in case we ever get that level of access back...you can always just run reports before you archive if you prefer to remove the old content.