Press Release
TAMPA, FL –
Simple Higher Ed, the leader in syllabus and course readiness solutions serving nearly 500 colleges and universities, today announced the launch of an integrated LMS clean up tool, a powerful new feature designed to improve the way institutions maintain their Learning Management Systems. Built to work across Canvas, Brightspace, and Blackboard, Clean Up helps both administrators and instructors quickly identify and remove unused, outdated, and duplicate content, turning cluttered course shells into streamlined learning spaces.
Learning Management Systems are essential for modern instruction, yet over time they often become weighed down by duplicate assignments, broken Gradebook links, orphaned files, and empty modules. These issues make navigation difficult for students and create unnecessary work for faculty. Clean Up changes that dynamic. With a single scan, institutions can see exactly what is active within a course and where unused or redundant items are hiding. Faculty can then remove clutter in minutes rather than hours, repair Gradebook issues before they frustrate students, and back up every deleted item into a secure folder to ensure nothing is lost.
Our team hears all the time from institutions that it’s difficult to keep an LMS clean at scale. Clean Up was built in direct response to that feedback. It gives both administrators and instructors the ability to scan, tidy, and back up courses in just minutes, helping them maintain consistency across the institution while creating a smoother experience for students.
Stefani Orbik, Vice President of Client Service
Clean Up was designed for both institution-wide consistency and individual course-level management. Administrators benefit from full-course scanning across the LMS, ensuring that empty folders and duplicate content are eliminated at scale. Instructors and instructional designers can work within their own courses, spotting outdated files, unlinked pages, and redundant assignments, all while maintaining control over what stays and what goes. The result is an LMS environment that is tidy, accurate, and far more intuitive for students.
The feature is provided as part of Simple Prep, Simple Higher Ed’s course readiness platform, at no additional cost. Clean Up strengthens the institution’s ability to manage quality at scale while empowering faculty with easy-to-use tools. It is built for Canvas, Brightspace, and Blackboard, ensuring support for the most widely adopted platforms in higher education.