Deleting an assessment

Sometimes you’ll need to remove an assessment entirely — a duplicate, a test setup you don’t need, or an end-of-year clean-up. This article walks through deleting one safely.

How to delete an assessment

Open the assessment (or find it in your Assessments list).
Open the assessment’s actions menu.
Click Delete assessment.
Confirm in the dialog.

The assessment is removed from your Assessments list immediately.

What gets deleted

Deleting an assessment removes everything attached to it:

The assessment paper and marking guide files
All submissions for the assessment
All marks and feedback for those submissions
All share links for those submissions (they stop working immediately)
The insights data for the assessment

What stays

Deleting an assessment doesn’t affect:

Your student records (they’re separate — see Editing, merging, and archiving students)
Other assessments
Your plan, balance, or subscription

Important: deletion is permanent

There’s no undo. Before deleting:

Download anything you need to keep — see Exporting class data and marks (CSV) and Exporting a class summary
Make sure share links can be revoked — they’ll stop working after deletion

If you’re not sure you want to delete, consider whether an end-of-year archive (in your own records) makes more sense — we don’t currently have an “archive assessment” feature, so backups are the workaround.

Need help?

If you delete something by mistake, get in touch quickly at connect@marking.ai — in some cases we can restore from a recent backup.

FAQs

Will deleting an assessment refund the submissions I used?

No — submissions you’ve already marked are spent. Deleting the assessment doesn’t return them.

What happens to student records linked to the deleted assessment?

The student records stay — only the assessment-specific submissions and marks are removed. Other assessments those students are in are unaffected.

Can I bulk-delete assessments?

Not today — deletion is one at a time. If you have lots to clear, drop us a line.