Course recycle bin

The course recycle bin is for items deleted from within a course – individual activities, labels, or resources.

Item Lifetime

This is simply the length of time a deleted item will stay in the recycle bin before being permanently deleted.

Category recycle bin

The category recycle bin is for items deleted at a category level, i.e., entire courses.

Course Lifetime

This is the length of time a deleted course will stay in the category recycle bin before being permanently deleted.

Autohide

This setting hides the link to the recycle bin when a recycle bin is empty.