Note: This is not to be used for Incompletes. Please follow these instructions to give a student with an Incomplete/Delayed Grade access to your course.
If you need to allow students to access your Canvas course for dates longer than the default semester you may change them in your course settings. You may also choose to restrict the dates to a shorter period of time.
Examples of when you may want to change course dates:
- Winter Intersession courses - Courses that occur during the winter intersession are associated with the Spring term in Canvas. It will be necessary to change course dates to provide access to students during the proper date range and to set assignment due dates for assignments outside of the Spring term dates.
- Stretch Courses - Courses extending past the end of the semester will only be associated with the semester they began. It will be necessary to change course end dates to provide access to students during the proper date range and to set assignment due dates for assignments.
- Access your course on Canvas.
- Select Settings in your course navigation menu (See Fig. 1).
Figure 1: Course navigation menu
- Select the Course Details tab (See Fig. 2).
Figure 2: Course details navigation tab
- In the Participation area change the type from Term to Course.
- Select the calendar icon next to the course start or end date to choose a different date (See Fig. 3).
Figure 3: Course start and end dates
- Select Update Course Details to save (See Fig. 4).
Figure 4: Updating course details
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