Canvas: Undelete and Restore Canvas Content

There are a couple of ways to restore content in Canvas that you have accidentally deleted: 

• For recently deleted Canvas elements (e.g., Assignments, Pages, Discussions) that you'd like to restore, use Undelete in the URL to restore your item. 
  • Important: This method will work only with recently deleted items.
• For content deleted within Canvas Pages, you have a few options for restoring the content.

In this article:

• Undeleting a Page, Assignment, or Other Item
• Restoring a Paragraph or Other Content on a Page
  • Undo
  • View Page History

Undeleting a Page, Assignment, or Other Item

1. Go to the Home page of the course.
2. Type /undelete In the address bar at the end of the course URL.
3. Hit Enter/Return. The page that appears will contain a list of recently deleted items with restore buttons next to them. 
4. Click restore next to the item you want restored.

Note: If a Discussion is restored, previous student submissions to the discussion will not be restored.

Restoring a Paragraph or Other Content on a Page

There are two methods to restore deleted content on a Page:

• Use the Undo command to restore the content.
• Use View Page History to restore an earlier version of the page.

Undo

Use undo if you have not saved the page since you made the change.

• Windows
  • Hold down the Control key and press z at the same time (Ctrl + z). 
• Mac
  • Hold down the Command key and press z at the same time (Cmd + z). 

View Page History

1. If you have deleted content and saved the Page, go to the vertical 3-dot settings icon and choose View Page History.
   
2. Select the previous version you'd like to restore and choose Restore this revision.