Unpublished SIS import as default

FlemmingVesterg

Hi

I'm importing our courses from governmental SIS system, when the courses are created in Canvas they are set as published. This is a problem, because often the teacher would like to costumze them, before the students can access them.

Is there anyway/anywhere you can set a trigger, so when the course is imported it will be unpublished as default.

Best regards

Flemming

stimme

@FlemmingVesterg If you are using SIS Import CSVs, the status column in the courses.csv file determines whether courses are created as unpublished or published. The status 'active' should create courses in the unpublished state, but the status 'published' would create them in the published state. If your SIS creates the CSVs already formatted for Canvas import, you could edit the status column values.

If you are using a different means of importing course information from your SIS, please share more details.