Hi @mverna,
By default, the Canvas API (application programming interface) will have that info it it's "start_at" field. If you're an admin and just need this info for a single course, you can just add "/api/v1" to the course url before the word "courses". For example, if the course is instance.instructure.com/courses/123456, you'd visit instance.instructure.com/api/v1/courses/123456 to get the "behind the scenes" course info object from the API. If you're looking to get the info for a larger number of courses, you could pretty easily do that by using the API with a scripting language like Python to get the full list of courses for an account/term and then print out the start_at date for each one.
Hope this helps a bit!
-Chris
