The Course Availability Setting is originally set from Middleware 2.0, the place where you request your Canvas Course Site. Options listed at the bottom of this article.

What an instructor needs to know about course availability and communicating with their students:

• Manually Make a Canvas Course Available to Students

Making a course "Available" in Canvas:

• 1) make sure it's Published

• 2) make sure the Participation Dates are correct:
  
  

Communicating in Canvas:

• Announcements = Notifications received After the course is available to users

• Email = copy of message forwarded to students gmail account, regardless if the course is Available or not.

Middleware 2.0 Canvas Availability Options:

• Start of Term - This setting will create the Canvas Course Site in a “Published” state initially,  but is not available to students until the first day of the term. 

• Date - This setting will create the Canvas Course Site in a “Published” state but the course will not be available to students until the date selected.

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• Unavailable - This setting will create the Canvas Course site in an “Unpublished” state.  When you are ready to make the course available to students you will need to “Publish” the course from the course home page and uncheck the “Restrict students from viewing course before term start date” check box on the course settings page

• Available to Students - This setting will create the Canvas Course site in a “Published” state. The course will be immediately available to enrolled students.

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