Publishing & sharing
Version history: preview, serve and restore
Everything you can do with a version you have already published.
Open version history from the status chip in the editor header — the one that says whether you have unpublished changes. It lists every version with its number, title, who published it and when.
Each version offers five things, in order of how much they touch.
Its own link
A link that always opens that version, however many times you publish afterwards. See Sending a class to one version.
Preview
Opens that version in a new tab, exactly as a learner received it. Changes nothing, and is the sensible first move before pressing any of the rest.
Serve this version
Re-points the plain share link at that version for everybody, until you change it again. Your draft is untouched.
Copy to new
Writes that version out as a new experience in the same workspace and leaves this one exactly as it was. This is the safe way to pick up an older direction without losing the current one.
Restore
Replaces your working draft with that version, discarding anything authored since. It is the only destructive control here, and the only one that asks before it runs.
One consequence is worth reading twice: scenes come back as new ones, so attempts learners have already taken will no longer line up with them. Restore is for recovering a direction, not for correcting a live assessment.
Puts that version back over your draft.
- Your current draft is replaced
- Scenes come back with new identities, so older attempts no longer line up
- Asks you to confirm, for that reason
Makes a separate experience from that version.
- Nothing you have now is touched
- The new one starts as a draft
- Good for next year’s class
"Published before restoring was possible"
Restoring and copying both read the authored snapshot taken at publish time. Versions published before those snapshots existed do not carry one, so both controls are unavailable on them.
They cannot be rebuilt from the learner's copy instead: that copy never contained your author-only contexts, so a draft rebuilt from it would quietly delete the content you chose to keep back.