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Method 4 I had someone email me today asking if my Google Sheet for this still worked. I didn't know so I tested it and it did. But then he asked if there was a way to sort the Canvas Course Search by unpublished courses. There is not, but I tried something on a whim and it worked. It turns out that if you are a Canvas admin, then you don't need Excel Lookup function, Power View, or Google Sheets to find a list of the unpublished courses. Go to your Admin > Courses page as detailed in How do I use the Courses page in an account? Add a query parameter of published=false to the URL and hit enter. This needs to come after a ? and if there are already other values after the ?, then you will need an & in front of it. Examples for account 12345 are <instance>/accounts/12345?published=false or <instance>/accounts/12345?enrollment_term_id=876&published=false The published=false is passed on to the List active courses in an account API endpoint, where it describes that published=true shows only published courses, published=false excludes published courses, and if omitted (the default), then it is not filtered. The beauty of this method is that you can then filter by term, search for instructors or courses, click at the top of most columns (except for Published) to sort, paginate through the list, and do it all from within Canvas with no special tools needed. You cannot publish the courses from that menu, but you can find them. ... View more

Support closed out our ticket on this and it looks like the help article has been updated to no longer show as open. No further reports on this, so glad this was worked on pretty quickly! ... View more