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title: What is the difference between archiving and deleting a course?
description: "Archiving a course:\nRemoves the course from active listings."
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# What is the difference between archiving and deleting a course?

**Archiving a course:**

- Removes the course from active listings.
- Retains all its content for future retrieval.
- Not visible to learners.
- Accessed by authors and co-authors only.
- Learners’ progress will reset upon unarchiving recurring courses. However, for other courses, learner progress will restore to its previous state at the time of archival.

**Deleting a course:**

- Permanently remove the course and all associated content.
- It cannot be recovered.
- Learners’ reports are lost.

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