How to Publish Your Course in Canvas
Sending Content to Another Instructor
To upload a syllabus file:
Once you publish your Canvas course site, you do not have to republish it again if you add new content. You only have to publish the site once. You can unpublish the course by going to the Home page and clicking the Unpublish button. This will turn off student access to the course site.
The Canvas course site is not yet published by the instructor. A course site isn't visible to students until the instructor manually publishes the Canvas site. If the semester/term has already started and you are definitely registered for the course, contact your instructor and ask them to publish the course.
A common feature in Canvas is the gray/green icon that indicates whether or not an item is published and thereby visible to students. Most items an instructor creates in their Canvas course (files, assignments, pages, modules, etc.)
Publish in Dashboard Login to Canvas and click Dashboard (A) in the global navigation on the left. Scroll down to locate the Unpublished Drafts (B) section in the Dashboard. Find the course you want to publish and click the Publish (C) button.
After you have added the course to one of the two worksheets, your enrollment will be processed in up to 2 hours. Check back after 2 hours to ensure that the course is listed on your Dashboard page.
You must publish a course before students can access it and its contents. Students cannot see unpublished courses and content. Publishing a course is a course permission. If you cannot publish your course, your institution has restricted this feature.
To unpublish a page, hover over the published button. The hover text will confirm you want to unpublish the page, and the button will change from green to red. Click the button to confirm.
To publish an assignment, click the assignment's Publish button. The button will change from gray to green.
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Essentially, you just....Go to Settings,Click on the Navigation tab,Drag pages from the bottom area to the top area.
What happens at the end of the semester? Your course will be "concluded" 2-3 weeks after the end of finals period. This means the content will be in an archival state. You will maintain full read/edit access to the site and students will also have access to your course content for up to 5 years.
In the Course Navigation menu, click the Modules link. button at the top right to add a new module. In the pop-up window, give your new module a name (such as "Module 1" or "Week 1" or "Readings"). You may select the "Lock until" box to enter a date after which this module will become visible to students.
If you are an instructor for a course, you can publish your course in the Course Home Page sidebar or from the Course Setup Checklist.
In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the name of the course [2].
A message will appear at the top of your screen confirming the publishing of your course.
If you need to unpublish your course, click the Unpublish button in the sidebar.
Support requests through the ATRC Support Center will give the fastest response time.