About Data Purge

The Data Purge tool enables you to create data sets which you can purge and store in as archived files. A data set is a collection of individual information items you can group together because they all share a common attribute. For example, Dropbox, Grades, Quizzes, News, and Homepages all belong to an Org Unit. An Org Unit data set contains all of these components' data and files information.

Date Purge helps you archive data, reclaim system storage space, and manage records according to your institution's data retention policies. Although you can access purged and archived data from a designated file location, you cannot restore data sets into Learning Environment.

You can create the following data set types in the Data Purge tool:

• Org Unit data set  Can contain course materials (e.g. Content), user activity (e.g. Discussions, Quizzes, Grades, Dropbox, Checklist), and files in the course path.
• User data set  Can contain profile information, activity log, emails, locker files, Dropbox Turnitin data, user enrollment, and user collections.
• Instance data set  Can contain orphaned information and data that does not belong to categories in Org Unit data or User data. For example, orphaned questions in Question Library would belong to an Instance data set.

Note  You cannot store or purge root org units such as your entire organization. Data Purge will not process data sets that contain Org level IDs.

Access the Data Purge tool

Click Data Purge in the Admin Tools widget, or from the Admin Tools menu on the minibar.

Data Purge help topics

Administering

• Creating data sets in Data Purge
• Managing data sets in Data Purge
• Data Purge permissions