How to Publish a Course

If you have permission to publish your course, you can publish your course from the Dashboard, the Course Home Page sidebar, the Course Settings sidebar, or the Course Setup Checklist.

Notes:

You must publish a course before students can access it and its contents. Students cannot see unpublished courses and content.
Publishing your course will send invitations to any users who were manually added to your course. Users added via SIS import will not receive an invitation.
Course invitations will not be sent until after the course start date. (The start date is commonly the term date, unless the term is being overridden by a specific course or section date in Course Settings.)
If your course has been published and includes grades, you cannot modify the course's published status.

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