Hide or remove assets

Updated 19 Feb 2024

You can delete assets so they are no longer available to you as teaching resources and you can remove assets from your course so they are no longer available to students.

Teaching assistants must have permission to remove assets. Within a course, instructors use the course Preferences > Permissions page to determine if teaching assistants can remove material. (MyLab Languages)

  1. Select Course Materials > Manage Course Materials or Course Materials Add from Library or Assign Course Materials > Manage Course Materials.
  2. Navigate to and select the folder or asset you want to hide.
  3. From the options menu, click Show/Hide.

The name of the newly hidden folder or asset appears in italics and the entry in the Shown To column changes to None.

  1. Select Course Materials > Manage Course Materials or Course Materials Add from Library or Assign Course Materials > Manage Course Materials.
  2. Navigate to and select the folder or asset you want to redisplay.
  3. From the options menu, click Show/Hide.

The name of the newly hidden folder or asset appears in italics and the entry in the Shown To column changes to All.

Remove student materials

You can remove assets you added to your course. After assets are removed from your course, they are no longer visible to students. You can always re-add assets from the Course Materials Library, but this can be a time consuming task. A better option is to use the Show/Hide feature described earlier in this topic.

If you remove an asset that already has submissions, the column is removed from the gradebook, and any applicable calculations or reports you generate no longer include that asset.

  1. Select Course Materials > Manage Course Materials or Course Materials Add from Library or Assign Course Materials > Manage Course Materials.
  2. Navigate to and select the asset(s) you want to remove.
  3. To remove a single asset, select Remove from the options menu for the asset.

    To remove one or more assets, select the assets and then click or on the toolbar.

Delete assets from the Course Materials Library

After you delete assets from the Course Materials Library, they cannot be recovered. If the asset appears in your course, after you delete it, it is no longer available in the course. Therefore, use caution before you delete assets from the library.

  1. Click Course Materials > Add from Library.
  2. In the Course Materials Library list on the left of the page, navigate to and select the folder or asset you want to delete.
  3. To delete a single asset, select Delete from the asset's options menu.

    - or -

    To delete one or more assets, click Advanced Options, select the assets, and then click Delete on the toolbar.

  4. In the confirmation window, click OK to confirm the deletion. After you delete an asset, you cannot access it again.