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Steps for making a Canvas Course Site available to students ahead of the previously scheduled time selected in Middleware2.0

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3 Ways to Manage Course Availability Dates in Canvas:

Course Availability Dates are first set when an instructor Requests their Canvas Course Site from Middleware.

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Unavailable

  • The course will receive no availability dates, and will be created automatically set as Unavailable to users.

  • The instructor will manually need to make the course available to students.

Available to Students

  • The course will receive no availability dates, and will be created automatically set as Available to users.

  • The instructor will manually need to make the course unavailable to students if no end-dates are applied to the Canvas course.

Start of Term

  • The course date will be set to automatically become available on the first day of the semester and unavailable 1 week after the semester ends.

  • The instructor does not need to do anything to make the course available other than be aware of when these date’s occur in case students have questions.

Start of Session

  • The course date will be set to automatically become available on the first day of the session and unavailable 1 week after the session ends.

  • The instructor does not need to do anything to make the course available other than be aware of when these date’s occur in case students have questions.

Date

  • This will automatically make the course available on a specific date set by the Instructor.

  • No end-date will be applied, this can be applied in Canvas or the course can be made manually unavailable by the instructor.

  • Go to Canvas and select the Course Site we want to work on.

  • Click on Settings in the Course Layout Menu, 

  • In "Participation" select the dropdown menu and select Course.

  • You can then insert a Start and End Date for your course :-) 

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  • Select Update Course Details at the bottom of the screen to save the change.

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