Registrar'sCanvas course start and end dates are set by the University of Findlay's Registrar Office within 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 assessments, as that is controlled 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 will 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.
Canvas Terms
All terms in Canvas overlap due to the multiple academic calendars that run within each term. Below are the approximate run times for each term:
- Fall: August through January
- Summer: May through September
- Spring: December through June
The Canvas dashboard is dynamic and reflects the current courses you are enrolled in. It is possible to briefly have two terms of courses on the dashboard at a time. If you wish not to wait for courses to be automatically removed from your dashboard once a term concludes, you can use Canvas's favoriting functionality.
- You can only favorite an active course.
- Once you favorite a course, the Dashboard will only show your favorited courses.
- You can unfavorite a course at any time, including after the term has concluded.
Canvas - Manage Your Canvas Dashboard