Course guides should be unpublished at the end of each semester unless the course will be offered  again the following semester.

There is nothing negative about deleting one of your guides. Sometimes interest in a topic has simply run its course or your have other responsibilities that need your focus.

Ways to identify whether or not your guide has come to the end of its life cycle:

• Do statistics show decreasing or only low views of the guide?
• Has the course you created a guide for ceased to be taught?
• Is the relevant discipline now focusing on other topics?
• Do you no longer have an interest in or time to maintain the guide?

Saying yes to any of these questions means you should take a closer look at whether or not your guide should stay published or whether it's time for its status to change.