Deleting a Scale

Deleting a Scale

by Donna Hrynkiw -
Number of replies: 1
My Director wants an inappropriate scale removed from our installation.

The documentation says "Once a scale is used for an activity, it is no longer possible to move or delete it..." http://docs.moodle.org/en/Scales#Editing_a_scale

So I figured out how to track down all the assignments where the offending scale was used (inappropriately) and set them to use a different scale. But I still can't delete the scale using front-end configuration. Apparently one usage of the scale is enough to keep it around forever.

Is there a back-end way (through the database) to delete it? I see in mdl_scale there is a field for timemodified. If timemodified is set to a time way in the past, will it appear as if the scale was never used?

Donna Hrynkiw
Kwantlen Polytechnic
In reply to Donna Hrynkiw

Re: Deleting a Scale

by Karen Newby -
Hi
I had this problem and thought I had deleted all scales. In the end I found I'd left a scale attached to an outcome. Even though it wasn't being used it still wouldn't allow me to delete the scale until I'd removed it from the outcome
Hope that makes sense!
K