Canvas Help Guide Publishing Content

Publishing and Unpublishing Items

A common feature in Canvas is the gray/green icon that indicates whether or not an item is published and thereby visible to students. Most items an instructor creates in their Canvas course (files, assignments, pages, modules, etc.) must be published before they are visible to students. In addition to individual items within a course, the course itself must be published before students can access it.

Publishing a Course

The status of your course displays in the upper-right corner of your course's Home page. Your course must be published before students can access it. Once a course has been published and a student submission has been graded, the course can no longer be unpublished.

Publishing Content

Published content in Canvas is indicated by a green checkmark as published status (1).

View Status of All Assignments

Unpublished content is indicated by a gray circle icon with slash through it (2).

Warning: Again most items an instructor creates in their Canvas course (files, assignments, pages, modules, etc.) must be published before they are visible to students

Additional Guides

How do I publish a course?

How do I publish or unpublish a module as an instructor?

How do I view the Unpublished Assignments column in the Gradebook?

How do I publish or unpublish a quiz as an instructor?

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If you need additional support you can contact the OTL Department by emailing canvas@suu.edu or calling 435-865-8555.