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A course must be made available to students before they can view or access the course and its content. However, you may want to make a course unavailable while building the course or after a scheduled course has finished. You can choose to set your course availability using the Qwickly tool or through your blackboard Blackboard course. Using the Qwickly tool will allow you to change the course availability for multiple courses at one time. Using the blackboard Blackboard tool will require that you change the availability for each course separately. In either case, opening/closing a course must be done manually - there is no feature to schedule course open/close dates in advance.
If your course is unavailable, access is determined by an individual's course role. Blackboard administrators, instructors, course builders, teaching assistants, and graders can see and access unavailable courses from the My Courses tab and the course list, but the course is marked as unavailable. Students, however, can't access unavailable courses regardless of the course duration.
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