In Scholar, students are only able to see courses which have been set to “available”. Courses are initially set to “Closed” so that instructors can prepare course shells before releasing them, and to make it obvious to students which of their courses are not using any of the Blackboard functions.

In addition, some instructors may want to make a course “unavailable” at the end of the semester, or if major revisions are being made to the course. Ultra now has two options for these situations, which provide different levels of access:

Listing a course as "Closed" will hide the course from students and make it inaccessible to them until it is opened again.
Listing a course as "Complete" will allow students to see the course, but prevent them from making any more submissions.

There are two ways to alter course availability. You can use the Qwickly module at the top of your CNU Scholar main page, or the mini-menu on the course itself.

Using the Course Settings

The simplest way to make a course available to students is from within your course. You'll see the course's opening status at the top right. Click it to open the course settings.

course availability status

You'll see that the Close Course toggle is ON. This means that your course is unavailable to students.

close course toggle on

Click it, and it'll turn off. This will make your course available to students.

Close course toggle off

Using Qwickly

If you want to make multiple courses available at once, you can use Qwickly. It is located near the bottom of the new navigation menu, under Tools. Select Tools, then Qwickly Tools from the resulting options.

Scholar Course Tools

The module will open in a new tab on your browser. Select "Course Availability" from the menu provided.

Qwickly Course Tools Menu

Your courses will appear as a series of toggles. Select a toggle to switch it from active to inactive or vice versa; an available course will show the toggle in green, while an unavailable course will display it in grey.

Qwickly Course Toggles

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