Using Oncourse CL, how do I publish or unpublish my site?

Note: To complete the procedures in this document, you must be assigned a role having the necessary permissions. To determine your role, follow the directions in Participant roles. To view a list of permissions associated with a given role, see Permissions, roles, and tools. For a basic understanding of roles and permissions, see Permissions and roles: Overview.

When you're ready for participants to see your site, you can make it available (i.e., publish it) from Site Setup. When you publish your site, it appears as a new tab in each participant's workspace.

To change the publication status of your site:

1. In your site's menubar, click Site Setup.
   
   
2. Click Manage Access.
   
   
3. Under "Site Status", next to Publish site, check or uncheck the box to publish or unpublish your site, respectively.

   Note: If you choose not to publish your site, students in the course no longer see the course tab in their Oncourse CL workspaces. Students may become confused about whether they are officially registered for your course if they do not see it in their workspaces, particularly in the few weeks prior to the beginning of a new semester.

   Individuals with any type of instructor role (AI/TA, instructor, assistant) will still have access to the course when it is not published.

4. Click Update.

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