Limit editability of course after term end

We would like concluded courses to be preserved as an archive. I thought that courses automatically enter a "read only" state to faculty and students after the conclusion of a term. However, I have found out that faculty are able to delete material from a course after its conclusion.

Is there a way to prevent any changes from happening within a concluded course but still leave the course available to students to view and faculty to view and copy?

Thanks!

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Chris

Hi @rwollner,

I have a couple questions around this for you. First, have you verified the courses and/or sections are not overriding term dates? If you've made sure the term date is totally in effect, you may want to verify you have term dates as well as dates for teachers that either coincide or are close to each other (the teacher access dates would override the term, so if you set teacher access for a year after the term, they could make changes for that period).

When things are set up right for this, you can definitely have the scenario you want. I can confirm that because it's exactly what we've had with our courses for years.

Look forward to hearing back from you!

-Chris

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