Course Admin | How to manage course activation and set start dates
Courses are created in an "active" state and therefore in educational courses a start date is set on the Saturday before the start of the period. Instructors can change or remove the start date and can change the active/inactive state, for example: a change or review of the course is needed.
The end date must not be changed, only if necessary please contact [email protected]
This article shows how to:
How to navigate
1. Via WUR Homepage
Navigate to your course
1. Click on Wageningen University & Research on the upper left corner
Hover over the course that you want to make active/inactive, then
2. Click on the three dots, a drop-down menu will appear
3. Click on Course Offering Information
2. Via Course Tools
Navigate to your course, then
1. Click on Course Tools, a drop-down menu will appear
2. Click Course Admin
This action will open the Course Administration page.
3. Click on Course Offering Information
How to activate or inactivate a course
This action will open the Course Offering Information page. Scroll down the page until you find the heading Active
1. Tick the box to activate or untick the box to inactivate the Course
2. Click the blue-button Save
If you have unticked the box, your course will appear as Inactive.
The course will appear as Inactive for Course Coordinators and lecturers. For students, the course will not appear at all. At this moment, only Course Coordinators have the ability to make a course active/inactive.
How to set a start date of a course
Navigate to the Course Offering Information page, either via WUR homepage or Course Tools
Scroll down until the end of the page, you will find the heading - Start Date
1. Tick the box if the Course will have a start date, and enter the Start Date
2. Click the blue-button Save
If you use an End date, be aware that the course is no longer accessible to students. In regular courses, students have the right to enter the course even when the course has finished.
Do not forget to tick the box under the Active heading. With a Start Date, students will not be able to access the course, but they will know that they are enrolled because they can see the course banner and course name on their WUR Brightspace homepage, however unclick-able.
It is not possible to send an email via the Classlist tool but only via the Email tool, if the Start date of the course page is in the future. In that case an error message will pop-up to inform you.
Now you know how to activate/inactivate and set a start date of a course in Brightspace!
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