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Courses, by default, are not available to students until the faculty member decides to make them available. After the scheduled section is created and materials added to the course.

To make the course available:

  1. Click the Control Panel button on the left side of the screen in your Course homepage.
    control panel
  2. Under Course Options click Settings.
    Click Course Availability
  3. Click Course Availability.
    Click Course Availability
  4. Click Yes.
    Set Availability
  5. Click the Submit button.
    Submit

Note: Setting the availability is an immediate process (faculty member does not have to wait for the server to run in order for the command to be processed).

At the end of the semester, faculty do not need to reverse this process, as all NIU courses are automatically set to be "unavailable" two weeks after the end of the semester. Once a course is made unavailable, students loose all access to the course and are unable to see the course in their list of courses.

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Last Updated: 05/15/2008