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Q: I am a faculty member who wants to access and interact with a past semester’s course site. I no longer see this course on my Canvas Dashboard. What do I do now?
A: Edit Course Availability Dates in Canvas

Q: I am a student who would like to view a past semester’s course site.
A: Contact your instructor with this request and they can extend course availability dates if they approve the request.

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Course Availability Dates are first set when an instructor Requests their Canvas Course Site from Middleware.

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Unavailable	The course will receive no availability dates, and will be created automatically set as Unavailable to users. The instructor will manually need to make the course available to students.
Available to Students	The course will receive no availability dates, and will be created automatically set as Available to users. The instructor will manually need to make the course unavailable to students if no end-dates are applied to the Canvas course.
Start of Term	The course date will be set to automatically become available on the first day of the semester and unavailable 1 week after the semester ends. The instructor does not need to do anything to make the course available other than be aware of when these date’s occur in case students have questions.
Start of Session	The course date will be set to automatically become available on the first day of the session and unavailable 1 week after the session endsThis option will automatically pull up the Start Date of the Session and offer the instructor a chance to edit it immediately. The session will close one week after the end of instruction. The instructor does not need to do anything to make the course available other than be aware of when these date’s occur in case students have questions.
Date	This will automatically make the course available on a specific date set by the Instructor. No end-date will be applied, this can be applied in Canvas or the course can be made manually unavailable by the instructor.

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Course Availability Dates can be edited in Canvas too.

To do this:

Go to Canvas and select the Course Site you want to work on.
Select Settings from the course layout menu.
You will land on the Course Details tab. Scroll down, locate "Participation," select the dropdown menu and select Course.

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The “Course” setting allows the instructor to enter dates and times for both the Start and End availability dates of the course.

“Term” is not editable by the Instructor.

Select Update Course Details at the bottom of the screen to save the change. This change will reflect immediately in Canvas.

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