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  • Canvas
    • Access Canvas
    • Import Content into Your Canvas Course
    • Upload Your Syllabus
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Review the Course-Launch Checklist
    • Publish Your Canvas Course
    • Understanding Your Canvas Courses Menu
  • Get Started In Canvas
    • Basic Computer Specifications for Canvas
    • Canvas-Supported Browsers
    • Customize User Display Settings
    • Customize Your Notifications
    • Your Canvas Dashboard
    • Customize "My Courses"
    • Get Started With The Calendar
    • Canvas on a Mobile Device
    • Link Canvas Courses
  • Design Your Course
    • Options To Organize Content
    • Set Up A Homepage
    • Import Content Into Your Canvas Course
      • Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site
    • Course-level Settings
    • Modify Your Course Menu
    • Get Started with the Rich Content Editor
    • Get Started With Modules
    • Get Started With Pages
    • Get Started With Files
    • Student View
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Library Content
    • Add Media In Canvas
    • Canvas Commons
  • Assignments and Grades
    • Get Started With Assignments
    • Get Started with Quizzes
      • Building a Quiz and Grading a Quiz
      • Quiz Options for Managing Accommodations & Supporting Academic Integrity
    • Get Started with Google Assignments
      • Create a Google Assignment
        • Get Started with the Google Originality Checker
        • Compare Google Grader and Canvas SpeedGrader
        • Compare Google Rubrics and Canvas Rubrics
    • Introducing New Quizzes
      • Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes
      • Building a New Quiz
      • Accessibility & Accommodations in New Quizzes
      • New Quizzes Support for Academic Integrity
      • Grading New Quizzes
    • Get Started with Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor
      • Enabling LockDown Browser
      • Enabling Respondus Monitor
      • Student Respondus LockDown Browser & Monitor GuideĀ 
    • Get Started with the Gradebook
      • Posting Grades and Feedback
      • Student-Facing Grade Notifications
      • Troubleshooting in the Canvas Gradebook
    • Take Attendance In Canvas
    • Student View Of Grades
    • Get Started with SpeedGrader
      • Addressing Bias in SpeedGrader
    • Grading Schemes
    • Rubrics
    • Peer Review
    • Canvas Discussions
      • Discussions: Navigating the Interface
      • Discussions: Locating Groups
      • Discussions: Anonymity & Privacy
  • People and Groups
    • Add People To Canvas
    • User Roles + Permissions
    • Get Started With Groups
    • Get Started With Analytics
  • Model Canvas Courses
  • Canvas Guide for Students
    • Changing Your Display Name and Setting Pronouns
    • Syllabus Search Student Guide
    • Using the Immersive Reader
    • Google Assignments Student Guide

Publish Your Canvas Course

Updated on January 7, 2025

Open Your Course

In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the name of the course [2].

Publish Your Course

If your course is currently unpublished, the “Unpublished” button in the Course Status will appear red.

To publish a course, click the “Publish” button in Course Status. The “Publish” button will turn green; the “Unpublished” button will turn from red to gray.

Students will be added to your roster in advance but will not be able to access the course until it has been published.

Unpublish Course

If you need to unpublish your course, click the Unpublished button in Course Status. Students who already received course invitations will not be able to access your course.

Once your course contains a graded submission, you can no longer unpublish your course.

Restricting Access To A Completed Course In Canvas

By default, students retain access to Canvas sites for their BC courses for the remainder of the time they are enrolled at BC. Instructors can remove student access to the site for any course once it has finished by following the steps below. For more information on managing access, including setting custom dates, please see the information from Canvas on how to change the start and end dates for a course.

Navigate to your Canvas Course.

Once you are on your Course Home Page, click the Settings tab in the Navigation bar.

Next, under the Course Details section, click the checkbox next to “Restrict students from viewing course after term end date”

Then, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the blue Update Course Details button.

When finished, the page will refresh and a banner reading “Course was successfully updated” will appear.

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