Cleaning up
If you've been following along, you've just deleted all of the courses from your Manhattan installation. Even though there are no courses on the server, you'll find:
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The "try" and "clubs" course groups you created are still there.
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All of the students and teachers still have their accounts!
In this section you'll learn how to delete empty course groups, and completely remove users who are no longer associated with a Manhattan course.
Deleting the empty course groups
Deleting an empty course group is done the same way you change its description. When a course group is empty, the form used to change a group's description has an additional "delete" button.
First select Configure courses from the administrator's menu. You'll get the form used to search for courses. Hold down your Ctrl key as you click on both the try and clubs groups, then click the search button. Although the search should come up empty, you'll get a summary that looks like this:
Click on the "For the tutorial" link to get to the form used to change a group's description and/or add notes. You'll find an additional button that allows you to permanently remove the empty course group:
Go ahead and click the button to delete the empty try course group created for this tutorial.
On your own: Repeat the procedure just described to delete the clubs group.
Removing users without classes
By design, a student or teacher continues to have a valid Manhattan account even if they no longer belong to any classes. This could happen because the administrator has completely deleted their classes, or they may have been individually removed from all of their classes by their teachers or the administrator. When a person without any classes logs in, they'll simply see an empty list of courses. The only options they will have are to Change your password and Log out.
It's easy for the administrator to look up and optionally delete users without classes. First, click on the View/modify/delete users link on the administrator's menu. You'll see the search form you've experimented with before in this tutorial:
First note the search option "Users without classes" underlined in red in the above image. You can always select that option when doing any user search to include only people who are "classless". The quickest route to deleting these users, however, is the link circled in red in the above screenshot, labelled "List users without classes for quick deletion.". Click that link and you'll get a list like this:
If you're following the tutorial, select all of the users (you can click the Check All button) and then click the Delete User(s) button. All of the selected user accounts will be deleted, and you'll get a summary page like the following:
