Canvas Updates During & After the Semester...

During the semester

During the semester, Canvas is updated periodically, every few hours, 7 days a week. These updates enroll students in the Canvas courses that correspond to their class registrations, remove students from the Canvas courses of any classes they drop, deactivate Canvas courses when a class is cancelled, and more. Typically most changes that are relevant to Canvas - registration data, class cancellations- needs about a day to be processed. Contact the IT Dept. Service Desk for any help or questions about Canvas.

After the semester, all special enrollments end

Anyone who was specially enrolled as a student, Student Assistant, or Assistant in a Canvas course is removed from that course once the semester is over. (All students who registered for a class and the person responsible for teaching that class will stay enrolled in the Canvas course).

Canvas Course Archiving

Colorado Mountain College Canvas courses from a given semester do not remain active and "turned on" indefinitely. The college archives all Canvas courses automatically approximately four months after a semester ends– to be exact, 120 days after each course’s official end date. So there is no single universal archiving date. If a class ends on May 2, it will be archived 120 days from May 2. But if a class ends on May 6, it will be archived 120 days after May 6, and so on.

Archiving means that Canvas course will be set to a read-only state and no further work can be done in the course by teachers and students. Archived courses will also retire from your short dropdown course list and must be accessed via the "View all courses" option on your course list. Please read the Canvas archiving FAQ to learn more.