Setting Moodle Course Site Visibility

Summary

This is a guide for changing courses from hidden to visible and vice versa in Moodle.

Body

Moodle course sites only appear to students if they are manually set by an instructor to be visible.

Beginning of the Semester

Instructors must make each course site visible to students:

  1. Click on Settings under the course title of your course site
  2. Under Course visibility select Show
  3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the blue Save and display button

End of the Semester

At the end of each semester, current Moodle courses that are in use remain open and available to currently enrolled students by default until graduation.  If you prefer to make current semester courses unavailable to students, please complete these steps:

  1. Click on Settings under the course title of your course site
  2. Under Course visibility select Hide
  3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the blue Save and display button

 

Questions?
Email moodle@colby.edu

Details

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Article ID: 80846
Created
Fri 6/14/19 10:03 AM
Modified
Fri 7/18/25 10:54 AM

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