

{"id":25240,"date":"2023-06-12T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T16:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=25240"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T20:46:43","slug":"make-your-brightspace-course-active-for-students","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/article\/make-your-brightspace-course-active-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightspace &#8211; Make Your Course Active (Available) for Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Brightspace courses are not available to students until instructors make them available, or &#8220;active.&#8221; When a course is ready to be activated for students, go into the course:<\/p>\n<p>1) Click <strong>Course Admin<\/strong> from the green navbar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin.png\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26655 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-300x136.png\" alt=\"Course Admin tab\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-1024x464.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-1536x696.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-60x27.png 60w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin-100x45.png 100w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-Course-Admin.png 1752w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2) From <strong>Course Admin<\/strong>, click <strong>Course Offering Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into.png\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26656 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-300x140.png\" alt=\"Course Offering Information link\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-768x359.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-50x23.png 50w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-60x28.png 60w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into-100x47.png 100w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-off-into.png 1486w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>Course Offering Information<\/strong> will be displayed. Scroll down towards the middle of the page and check the <strong>Course is Active<\/strong> button. Click <strong>Save<\/strong>. Your course is now available to students.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active.png\" rel=\"lightbox-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26657 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-166x300.png\" alt=\"Course is active checkbox and Save button\" width=\"166\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-166x300.png 166w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-567x1024.png 567w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-768x1387.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-28x50.png 28w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-850x1536.png 850w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-1134x2048.png 1134w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-33x60.png 33w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Active-course-is-active-55x100.png 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>    \t\t<div class=\"hts-messages hts-messages--info  hts-messages--withtitle hts-messages--withicon \"   >\r\n    \t\t\t<span class=\"hts-messages__title\">New Functionality: Access Course Offering Information from your <strong>My Courses<\/strong> area!<\/span>    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\t<p>\r\n    \t\t\t\t\tYou can now quickly access Course Offering Information from any course in the <strong>My Courses<\/strong> area. Just click the ellipsis on your course banner and choose the link. Follow the instructions in Step 3 above to make the course active.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner.png\" rel=\"lightbox-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-26659 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-300x256.png\" alt=\"Course Offering Information button\" width=\"300\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-1024x872.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-768x654.png 768w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-50x43.png 50w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-60x51.png 60w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner-100x85.png 100w, https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/active-banner.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>    \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n    \t\t\t    \t\t\t\r\n    \t\t<\/div><!-- \/.ht-shortcodes-messages -->\r\n    \t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Brightspace courses are not available to students until instructors make them available, or &#8220;active.&#8221; When a course is ready to be activated for students, go into the course: 1) Click Course Admin from the green navbar 2) From Course Admin, click Course Offering Information 3) Course Offering Information&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[546],"ht-kb-tag":[523],"class_list":["post-25240","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-brightspace","ht_kb_tag-brightspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/25240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25240"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/25240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30557,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/25240\/revisions\/30557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=25240"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/it\/dev\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=25240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}