Start and end dates of courses within Canvas are set by the University of Findlay's registrar in the Workday database. These dates align with the course's academic calendar and determine when students can access and submit assignments.
Courses may be published before the academic start date, allowing students to access them, provided that you have not restricted their visibility before the start date. However, this alone does not grant students access to assignments, as that is governed by the course start date.
Manually changing the start and end dates in the course settings will have NO EFFECT on the runtime of the course.
Courses will automatically conclude at the end of their designated end date. At this time, your course with be moved into an archived state where it can no longer be updated but can still be accessed. You may request to have a course extended by submitting an Extended Course Grade or Incomplete Grade in Workday, but please allow some time for this process to be completed, as it is not automatic.