⏱️ The essentials in 3 minutes:
In Didask, a deleted project stays available for 30 days in the bin before permanent deletion.
You can restore a project at any point during those 30 days, without losing its content.
Deleting a project instantly unpublishes its linked publications, so learners lose access right away.
After restoring a project, you need to republish its publications manually to give learners access again.
Once the 30 days are over, the project, its publications, and its learner progress data are permanently deleted and can no longer be recovered.
🧠 Understand the pedagogical stake behind learner continuity
A Didask project often holds months of work: modules, publications, and above all the progress learners have already recorded. An accidental deletion should never permanently interrupt an ongoing course or wipe out that effort.
The Didask project bin gives you time to double check a deletion decision before it becomes irreversible, without putting learners' ongoing progress at risk.
🗑️ How do I delete a project in Didask?
From All projects, open the menu for the project you want to delete.
Click Delete.
Confirm by clicking Delete project.
Once the deletion is confirmed, the project leaves your All projects list and moves into the bin for 30 days.
⚠️ As soon as you confirm, any publication linked to the project is automatically unpublished. Learners lose access to those publications immediately, right when the project is deleted, not only after the 30 days.
↩️ How do I restore a deleted project in Didask?
A deleted project isn't lost right away: it stays in the Didask project bin for 30 days, and you can restore it at any point during that period.
🔍 Find the project in the bin:
Click Filters.
Under the Bin category, turn on Show deleted projects.
Spot the project using the Deleted on column, which shows the deletion date and the days left before permanent deletion.
🌟 Restore the project:
Next to the project, click Restore.
Turn off Show deleted projects to find the restored project back in your main All projects list.
Once both steps are done, the project and all its content (modules, publications, and learners' already-recorded progress) are available again just as before deletion.
⚠️ Limitation to know about: restoring a project does not automatically republish its publications. They stay unpublished after restoration. To give learners access again, republish each publication manually from the restored project.
👤 Anticipate the impact of deletion and restoration for learners
As soon as a Didask project is deleted, learners lose access to the related publication and can no longer resume their course.
Restoring a project from the bin does not automatically restore learner access: the publication stays unpublished until the author republishes it manually.
While a project sits in the bin (within the 30-day window), learners' already-recorded progress is kept and will be restored along with the project.
Once the 30-day window is over, learner progress linked to the project is permanently deleted, along with the project and its publications.
⚠️ Limitations and good to know
Fixed timeframe: a deleted project stays in the Didask bin for exactly 30 days, with no option to extend that window.
Manual republishing: after restoration, no publication is automatically put back online. The author must republish each affected publication.
Permanent, irreversible deletion: once the 30 days are over, the project, its modules, its publications, and the associated learner progress data are permanently deleted. No recovery is possible after that point.
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