How to Modify Course Availability
Unless you have changed access dates for your course, students can access courses and submit assignments until two weeks after the end of the regular semester grade deadline.
After that, students can view courses but cannot submit work. For Teachers and TAs, courses will be concluded (meaning teachers can't make any more changes to it) about a year after the grade deadline. This will all happen every semester without any action on your part.
This default behavior is very different than Blackboard, where students could not access courses at all after the end of the term.
If you want students to have read-only access your course after the 2-week window, nothing needs to be changed.
If you do not want students to access your course at all, or want to close your course on a different date, you need to change these settings:
- Click Settings on the course menu
- Select the Course Details tab
- Use the calendar icon next to the Ends field to choose the date you want students to no longer access the course.
- Check the box next to “Users can only participate in the course between these dates”
- Check the box next to “Restrict students from viewing course after end date”
- Click the Update Course Details button