[ARCHIVED] Control Visibility of courses?

[charcoal_harry]

Hey so, I've just been working on a course which I created in canvas.instructure.com and went to make it public then found I cannot change the visibility.

What's going on Canvas? 

Is this a recent change that we haven't heard about?

Previously, I've created courses and had no restrictions placed upon making them public. eg. Sunless Skies Review IDGBL 19/20 - Likewise for this course, I cannot change it's visibility away from being Public.

Have searched the Release notes and Canvas Changes and found no news.

Much confused.

Any advice much appreciated.

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[James · Accepted solution]

 @charcoal_harry 

Please see this thread for an explanation of what changed: Trouble in Free for Teacher... 

In particular, this message from January 7, 2020, explains what you need to do. It's the same thing shown in your screen shot: "If you need to make your course public please contact your administrator/support." Since you're using the free for teachers version, you don't have an administrator, so you should contact Canvas Support.

[Bobby2]

Hi  @charcoal_harry , added to what the wise  @James ‌ said I checked with both my Free for teachers and our institutions Canvas instances and they both allowed the courses to be public.

I agree with James, contact Canvas Support How to contact Canvas Support 

[charcoal_harry]

Thanks James,

That's very handy information. Seems like a strange way to announce quite a major shift in access to that setting but at least there is a group to go to find answers https://community.canvaslms.com/groups/free-for-teachers . FFT support seems to also be very slow in responding to requests at the moment. Not sure what the average turn-around is.