Organizing Your Course

A course needs to be published so students can access it. Unpublished courses are not visible to students. The same goes for individual items and modules on the home page. Students can not turn in an assignment if it is not published or access content in a module if the module itself is not published.

Publish Your Course

Open your course.
Click the Publish button, top right. On smaller screens, the button displays beneath Course Home Page content.

It is possible to unpublish a course as long as students submissions have not been graded.

Publish Course Content

To publish specific items on the home page click the publish icon (see image below). The same goes for publishing a module.

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If a module is unpublished the content within it is not accessible to students, even though individuals items have been published.

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