The following tips will help you troubleshoot issues with your course or course content not appearing to students and other course members:

Make sure the Course is published from the home page.

Even if all of the content in your course is individually published, you must set the course itself to published status on the home page. When your course status is set to unpublished as shown by this screenshot, you must click publish. The checkmark will change to a green Published button. When your course is published, students will be able to see any content within the course that has a published status. This will not publish items that you have previously saved as unpublished. Note: on smaller screens, this sidebar displays beneath the main course content.

Read more about course publishing and visibility settings.

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Files are automatically published if the course is published.

When you upload content to the Files area, it will automatically be published. If your course is published, this content will also be visible to students. If you do not want students to see all of the Files in a course, we recommend hiding the Files link in the navigation by going to your course Settings. You can link to individual files from Modules to control how they are released to students. We can offer instruction on the best way to organize your course content using Modules.

Read more about hiding menu links from students in your navigation.

Read more about using Modules to release content to students.

Make sure your modules (not just module items) are published.

Module items in a course can be published individually, but they will not be visible until the module itself is published. This is also a good way to keep a module hidden before you are ready to release it to students. To publish a module, click the box to the right of the module name:

Read more about publishing modules, assignments, files etc.

Need to grant early access? Adjust the term start/end dates.

Students will not be able to access the course or receive course invitations until the start of the term. If you need them to have access outside of the term start/end dates, you can adjust these dates in your course settings under Course Details. This will change the dates your course is available on Camino, but does not affect the enrollment term of your course.

Read more about adjusting course dates here.

Unpublish individual items to hide them from students.

If you need to temporarily or permanently hide items from students, you can unpublish them retroactively by clicking the green "published" checkmark to toggle the content to unpublished. This works from both Modules and from other tools like Assignments and Quizzes.

Use a Sandbox course to build content in your own private area

If you’re concerned about accidentally publishing content or would like to create it in a course site that is visible only to yourself, you can request a “Sandbox” course. This course content can then be easily copied to your active courses. Email us at CaminoSupport@scu.edu to request a Sandbox course. This is also an ideal way to experiment with the various features of Camino. Sandbox courses do not have a start and end date.