Make a course not visible on student's dashboard

[chatelainga]

Our program had one large Canvas course with all our students dumped into it (we divided it into sections and groups). We have now set up individual Canvas courses for each teacher (hooray!). The problem is, we want to unpublish the original large Canvas course so students don't see it in their dashboard (they get confused as to what class to click on), but we (teachers) still want access to the course content in the original course.

I learned we cannot unpublish a course that has graded students submissions. Is there any other way to hide the original course from student's dashboard, but still have it available on the teacher's dashboard?

Alex