In accordance with the records retention schedule set for student records in WSU’s Business Policies and Procedures Manual (BPPM), course content will only be preserved within Canvas for five years following the end of the fiscal year in which the courses were taught.
The first cycle of course deletions is scheduled to start July 1, 2025. On this date, course content from Spring 2020 and earlier terms will be permanently removed from Canvas. Course content will then be removed according to the record retention schedule for all terms that follow.
Deletions will apply to credit and non-credit courses only. At this time, sandbox and continuous courses (non-credit courses with no end date) are not scheduled for deletion.
Once course content is removed from Canvas as part of university record disposal requirements, it cannot be recovered.
WSU instructors or their departments must ensure any course content that needs to be retained is exported prior to the course’s scheduled removal date.
For instructions on how to export Canvas course content or more information on BPPM 90-01 (University Records–Retention and Disposition), please review the Canvas Course Retention and Deletion support article.
Please contact WSU’s Canvas Technical Support team via email at ats.aoi@wsu.edu or phone at 509-335-4320 with any questions.
