Step-by-Step Instructions
Making a course private/open it what makes the course available or not available to students. On your Courses page in Blackboard, click the three dots next to a course and choose Hide Course.
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.
Simply drag and drop the Course Menu buttons by clicking an item box and holding your mouse button as you drag each item box into the “hide” section under “Drag items here to hide them from students.”
Once student interaction on your course is no longer needed (only viewing), setting an end date will manually 'archive' your course and remove it from your, and your students', dashboards. The course will still be accessible in archive format by clicking on courses and viewing Past enrolments.
From your course home page, click the settings tab at the bottom of the course menu. Once in settings, there will be options for both deleting or ending the course on the menu on the right side of the page. Click whichever one to end or delete your course.
To delete all course content from your Canvas course:Navigate to the course with the content you wish to delete.From the course navigation menu, select Settings.In the "Settings" sidebar at the right, select Delete All Course Content. You will be prompted to confirm.
Hide Navigation Links To hide a navigation link, you can drag and drop the link to the hidden section at the bottom of the page [1]. You can also click the link Settings icon [2] and select the Disable option [3].
Hiding Modules If you want to you can “lock” a module in Canvas, which limits access Students can have to it, until a certain date. To do this, you would click the pencil icon in the module, and check the box within the settings to lock access to the module until a certain date.
How do I unhide the Canvas Course Emailer tool?Click Settings.Select the Navigation tab.Drag the Course Emailer tool from the list of Hidden tools at the bottom of the page to the Active tools at the top of the page.Click Save. The Course Emailer tool should now be in the Active tool list.Example.
What will happen to the course content, student submissions and grades when the course is archived? Archived course sites are not deleted or removed. Everything in the course site - all course content, quizzes, student submissions, grades, rubrics, assignment comments etc. - is preserved.
To access a Canvas site for a past course, please log into Canvas, click on the Courses tab, and then click on the View All Courses link. On the next page under “Past Enrollments,” you will be able to view your past courses.
Save and Save & Publish - Click Save & Publish to save and publish the assignment for students to view. Click Save to save an unpublished draft of the assignment. If assigning an assignment to select students, Canvas will warn instructors that the assignment is not assigned to sections. Click Continue.
To unpublish an assignment, hover over the published button for the assignment and view its status. If the assignment can be unpublished, the hover text will confirm you want to unpublish the assignment, and the button will change from green to red. Click the button to confirm.
Within the content item, unpublished content is indicated by a gray circle icon with slash through it. You can easily switch between the two statuses by clicking on the publish or unpublish button.
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. You may have previously set your Courses List to show other courses.
A green box with the word "Published" means that enrolled students can access your course. Note: Published courses that have not yet been accessed by students can be unpublished (Click on image below to enlarge it).
If you disable the Course Navigation link for an external tool, the link no longer displays in your Course Navigation list.
To enable a link in the hidden section [1], click the Options icon [2] and click the Enable button [3] .
A link may be hidden to students because the feature area has no content [2] or because the link is disabled [3].
Hidden only (cannot be disabled but still accessible via direct URL): Discussions and Grades
Hidden items must first be enabled before they can be ordered among visible navigation items. A hidden item cannot be moved directly to the enabled link section using the Move To option.
Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links that are shown by default and cannot be renamed. Depending on your course configuration, other links may be available and may be customizable.
Navigation links that cannot be disabled require the URL access to display related data in other Canvas areas. Access to hidden pages may be further restricted by changing specific student permissions in Canvas. Contact your Canvas admin for assistance.
Perhaps you’ve never asked this question, but it’s worth considering. While one of Canvas’s strengths is its numerous tools and features, a byproduct of these options, depending on how you’ve structured your site, are extraneous navigation buttons. Unused navigation buttons–just the ones with black text, not the ones with gray (more on this later)–divert students from the content you’ve added. For example, if you’ve ever wondered why you have a button called Collaborations and don’t intend to use it, then it’s probably safe to assume your students are wondering about it, too. For students, wondering may lead to wandering, as in clicking on this and other buttons and finding areas unpopulated with course materials but present and visible nonetheless. Retracing one’s steps in Canvas is easy (the course navigation bar appears in all areas of a course), but so is customizing your navigation bar to hide buttons to unused areas, and doing the latter can stop students from getting lost in your site.
Course navigation bar with content added. When you hide a navigation button it goes from black to gray, indicating that it’s no longer visible to your students. Here’s an example of the same course navigation bar pictured directly above with several buttons hidden: Course navigation bar with hidden buttons.
You can’t change the text on a button. Also, you can’t add buttons to the navigation bar, neither to unlisted areas of a Canvas site (e.g., “Groups) nor for external web links.