Making a Course Inactive (Unavailable to Students)

Summary

A brief tutorial walking through the steps to make a course inactive (unavailable to students).

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Making your Brightspace Course Inactive (Unavailable to Students)

Courses, by default, will be Active and available to all students. This means students will be able to access the course unless you deactivate it.

Make Your Course Inactive

In Brightspace, navigate to the course. In the red NavBar at the top of the page, click on the Course Tools drop-down menu and in the menu select Course Admin.

Header Image in Brghtspace, noting the Course Tools, Course Admin options.

On the new page, click the Course Offering Information option and another page will open up.

Brightspace course administration section emphasizing the course offering information option

On the new page, scroll down and uncheck the active (course in active) option. Then scroll down further and click the blue Save button.

Brightspace course is active option being emphasized with a red arrow.

 

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Article ID: 158106
Created
Wed 8/13/25 8:02 AM
Modified
Thu 8/28/25 10:28 AM

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