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Unlock or relock your Canvas course after the term ends

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Unlock a course

Relock a course.

After a Canvas course's term has ended, the course becomes read-only for enrolled students. Instructors can no longer add or remove members using the People tool, send messages to students in the course, or edit course content. As an instructor, to perform these functions after the term has ended, use the Unlock Course button to reopen the course. You can later relock the course using the Lock Course button.

To unlock a Canvas course after the term has ended:

  • Navigate to the course you want to unlock, and from the course navigation menu, select Settings .

Unlock Course button from course's Settings page in Canvas

  • After the page automatically refreshes, your course will be unlocked, and the course end date will be set to one month from the current date. If you're satisfied with this end date, you don't need to take further action.
  • If you want the course to remain open for a longer or shorter period of time, in the "Ends:" field, revise the course end date, and then click Update Course Details to save your changes.

You should now be able to make changes throughout your course. The course will now appear above the "Past Enrollments" heading on your personal "All Courses" page.

To relock a course you have previously unlocked:

  • Navigate to the course you want to lock, and from the course navigation menu, select Settings .

Lock Course button from course's Settings page in Canvas

  • After the page automatically refreshes, your course will be locked and the course end date will be blank.

The course will now appear under the "Past Enrollments" heading on your personal "All Courses" page.

This is document anzm in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on 2023-11-15 09:43:31 .

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Lock an assignment

You can control when students can access or submit an assignment by locking an assignment. Lock an assignment to restrict students from accessing it until the date you set. Or, you can lock submissions to prevent students from submitting assignments after a date you set (e.g. the day after the due date). Note : these steps do not work for discussion assignments.

Lock an assignment :

  • In the course navigation, click Assignments , then click on the name of the assignment.

interface for locking an assignment

  • Under Assign to , choose the section you wish to lock the assignment for. You can also leave it as Everyone .
  • Under Available From , enter the earliest date students can access the assignment.
  • Under Until , enter the latest date that students can access the assignment. Time of day is optional.
  • Click Save or Save & Publish .

All Categories ​>​ ​Assignments ​>​ How do I lock or unlock an assignment or assessment?

How do I lock or unlock an assignment or assessment?

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How to lock an assignment or assessment for all students:

How to lock an assessment or assignment for an individual student or class:.

  • Select Assessment/Assignment Center from the left side menu.

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  •  Select Assignment Bank.

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  • Click the checkbox to the left of the Assignment/Assessment and click the Lock/Unlock button.

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  •  Select  " Ok ".

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  •   The bold lock icon next to the assignment indicates that the assignment is now locked and can't be viewed or worked on by students.

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  • To unlock an Assignment/Assessment, simply repeat steps 3-4.

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  • Select Assignment Bank .

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  • Click the gear icon in the Settings column for the assignment or assessment.

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  • Scroll down and click on the black plus sign next to a class to see the list of students. Check the box next to the student name to select specific students, or check the box next to the class name to select all students in that class. Check the box in the Lock Assignment column for each student. Click Save Assignment.

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  • To unlock an assessment or assignment, follow steps 3-4, and uncheck the box in the Lock Assignment column.

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Canvas LMS - REST API and Extensions Documentation

Assignments api.

API for accessing assignment information.

An ExternalToolTagAttributes object looks like:

A lockinfo object looks like:, a rubricrating object looks like:, a rubriccriteria object looks like:, an assignmentdate object looks like:, a turnitinsettings object looks like:, a needsgradingcount object looks like:, a scorestatistic object looks like:, an assignment object looks like:, an assignmentoverride object looks like:, delete an assignment assignmentscontroller#destroy, delete /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:id.

Delete the given assignment.

Example Request:

List assignments assignmentsapicontroller#index, get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments, get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignment_groups/:assignment_group_id/assignments.

Returns the paginated list of assignments for the current course or assignment group.

Request Parameters:

List assignments for user assignmentsapicontroller#user_index, get /api/v1/users/:user_id/courses/:course_id/assignments.

Returns the paginated list of assignments for the specified user if the current user has rights to view. See List assignments for valid arguments.

Duplicate assignment AssignmentsApiController#duplicate

Post /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/duplicate.

Duplicate an assignment and return a json based on result_type argument.

Get a single assignment AssignmentsApiController#show

Get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:id.

Returns the assignment with the given id.

Create an assignment AssignmentsApiController#create

Post /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments.

Create a new assignment for this course. The assignment is created in the active state.

Edit an assignment AssignmentsApiController#update

Put /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:id.

Modify an existing assignment.

Bulk update assignment dates AssignmentsApiController#bulk_update

Put /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/bulk_update.

Update due dates and availability dates for multiple assignments in a course.

Accepts a JSON array of objects containing two keys each: id , the assignment id, and all_dates , an array of AssignmentDate structures containing the base and/or override dates for the assignment, as returned from the List assignments endpoint with include[]=all_dates .

This endpoint cannot create or destroy assignment overrides; any existing assignment overrides that are not referenced in the arguments will be left alone. If an override is given, any dates that are not supplied with it will be defaulted. To clear a date, specify null explicitly.

All referenced assignments will be validated before any are saved. A list of errors will be returned if any provided dates are invalid, and no changes will be saved.

The bulk update is performed in a background job, use the Progress API to check its status.

List assignment overrides AssignmentOverridesController#index

Get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/overrides.

Returns the paginated list of overrides for this assignment that target sections/groups/students visible to the current user.

Get a single assignment override AssignmentOverridesController#show

Get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/overrides/:id.

Returns details of the the override with the given id.

Redirect to the assignment override for a group AssignmentOverridesController#group_alias

Get /api/v1/groups/:group_id/assignments/:assignment_id/override.

Responds with a redirect to the override for the given group, if any (404 otherwise).

Redirect to the assignment override for a section AssignmentOverridesController#section_alias

Get /api/v1/sections/:course_section_id/assignments/:assignment_id/override.

Responds with a redirect to the override for the given section, if any (404 otherwise).

Create an assignment override AssignmentOverridesController#create

Post /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/overrides.

One of student_ids, group_id, or course_section_id must be present. At most one should be present; if multiple are present only the most specific (student_ids first, then group_id, then course_section_id) is used and any others are ignored.

Update an assignment override AssignmentOverridesController#update

Put /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/overrides/:id.

All current overridden values must be supplied if they are to be retained; e.g. if due_at was overridden, but this PUT omits a value for due_at, due_at will no longer be overridden. If the override is adhoc and student_ids is not supplied, the target override set is unchanged. Target override sets cannot be changed for group or section overrides.

Delete an assignment override AssignmentOverridesController#destroy

Delete /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/:assignment_id/overrides/:id.

Deletes an override and returns its former details.

Batch retrieve overrides in a course AssignmentOverridesController#batch_retrieve

Get /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/overrides.

Returns a list of specified overrides in this course, providing they target sections/groups/students visible to the current user. Returns null elements in the list for requests that were not found.

Batch create overrides in a course AssignmentOverridesController#batch_create

Post /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/overrides.

Creates the specified overrides for each assignment. Handles creation in a transaction, so all records are created or none are.

Errors are reported in an errors attribute, an array of errors corresponding to inputs. Global errors will be reported as a single element errors array

Batch update overrides in a course AssignmentOverridesController#batch_update

Put /api/v1/courses/:course_id/assignments/overrides.

Updates a list of specified overrides for each assignment. Handles overrides in a transaction, so either all updates are applied or none. See Update an assignment override for available attributes.

Appendix: Group assignments

The following diagram provides an example to describe the structure of group assignments. It also shows the correspondence between the fields of an assignment override API request and the resources they map to.

Group assignments structure example

The components in yellow are group sets . When creating or updating an assignment override, you will refer to the group set by the group_category_id field.

The components in green are groups . An assignment can become a group assignment iff it has a group_category_id that maps to an active group set, as well as a group_id that maps to an active, valid group. In the API, you will be specifying the group by the group_id field of the assignment_override construct.

Important : an assignment must be assigned to a group set (the group_category_id field) on creation for an override with a group_id to be effective.

  • Creating an assignment override
  • Creating an assignment

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