Create an orphaned activity

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To create an orphaned activity follow these steps:

  1. Ensure your course has one more topic than you want. 
  2. Move the activity you wish to orphan to the last topic on the course.
  3. Remove the last topic (by clicking the minus icon () under the topics section).

In the example below the course only has nine topics, the 10th topic has been removed while the forum activity was still in it. 

An orphaned forum activity in a deleted section.

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