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One update on this: some of the pages that we were publishing but which weren't visible to students were explained by ensuring the allow in mastery paths checkbox at the bottom of the editing view of the page was unchecked. I was able to connect to a knowledgable Canvas phone support person who explained that if you check this checkbox while editing a page, the page will disappear from the student view until the mastery path criteria attached to that page are fulfilled. In our case, we were checking the box, but not setting any specific mastery path criteria, and the page was being hidden from students by Canvas until the criteria we didn't specific were fulfilled (that is, the page would never have become visible to students). Ensuring this checkbox (at the bottom of the page when you are editing a Page as a designer or Teacher) is un-checked has helped us resolve pages becoming invisible to students (except where we've misbehaved with the Blueprints feature). I hope this clarification helps others. ... View more

Greetings, We have experienced the same trouble with pages visible and apparently published in Instructor view which are not visible in Student view. After two phone calls and a helpdesk ticket with Canvas, myself and our University IT staff determined that multiple syncs from a blueprint course to an associated course had caused the issue. There is no way to correct this problem as a user; we have to rebuild each page in the affected courses.  One L1 support person I spoke to said that each page has its own internal id, so if the page changed in the associated course, the blueprint course could no longer affect it (and Instructors cannot correct the problem). This doesn't explain the behavior we've observed, but explains why deleting (not duplicating) the page and building a new page with the same rich content editor content solves the problem. This is our first term using Canvas, and this problem (only detectable in Student view) has impaired the trust of our faculty in Canvas's publish setting. I'm hopeful that future courses built using a single blueprint sync won't have the same trouble.  ... View more