Important: all courses created through the request system are created in a Published state and hidden by the dates set during the request. Instructors do not need to publish or unpublish their coruses. The default dates when students gain and lose access to a course are specified when creating credit courses through the Course Request system. After creation, instructors can modify students’ access to a course in the Participation section of the Settings page of a course. Important Note: This field should most often be set to course. The Term option pulls dates from Peoplesoft that do not apply to all situations at the U of A. With the term option set, it is not possible to make any edits to the course' start and end dates. IMPORTANT: Toggling the dropdown to Term also blanks out any existing dates so these will need to be re-entered if Term is selected (quitting the page without saving changes will also restore the pre-existing values.)

Below the dropdown, instructors have the following options: 

1. They can choose new dates from the calendar picker and enter different times to adjust the dates students gain and lose access.
2. They can provide students early, read-only access to a course by deselecting the option Restrict students from viewing this course before start date. (To provide students early access to participate in a course, enter a new start date.)
3. They can restrict students to a read-only view of a course after its completion by unchecking the option Restrict students from viewing this course after end date.

Note that these settings changes can only provide students with early (or different) access to a course when the enrollments already exist in Bear Tracks and have been synced into Canvas. The sync process occurs every 2 hours. If instructors do not see all the students they expect in a Canvas course, they should validate that they have created the course based on the correct section in Bear Tracks and contact eClass support if they encounter any issues.