# Set Course to Hide/View

By default, all courses are initially hidden from student view. **Courses are automatically made visible to students 1 week prior to the beginning of the semester.** If you wish for your course to be hidden after the 1-week mark, follow the instructions below.

#### Instructions


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*4 STEPS*

1\. The first step is to open your course and click **Settings**

![Step 1 image](https://www.iorad.com/api/tutorial/stepScreenshot?tutorial_id=2415651&step_number=1&width=800&height=600&mobile_width=450&mobile_height=400&apply_resize=true&min_zoom=0.5)

2\. Next to **Course visibility**, choose show or hide.  
  
If <u>show</u> is selected, all students, instructors, and TAs can see the course on their Moodle dashboard. If <u>hide</u> is selected, only instructors can see the course on their Moodle dashboard.

![Step 2 image](https://www.iorad.com/api/tutorial/stepScreenshot?tutorial_id=2415651&step_number=2&width=800&height=600&mobile_width=450&mobile_height=400&apply_resize=true&min_zoom=0.5)

3\. Scroll down and click **Save and display**

![Step 3 image](https://www.iorad.com/api/tutorial/stepScreenshot?tutorial_id=2415651&step_number=3&width=800&height=600&mobile_width=450&mobile_height=400&apply_resize=true&min_zoom=0.5)

4\. That's it. You're done.

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#### Notes

- You can check if your course is hidden or shown by looking at your dashboard. Courses that are hidden say that they are hidden underneath the course name.

[![uw2hiddendashboard2.png](https://help.mlc-wels.edu/uploads/images/gallery/2021-08/scaled-1680-/uw2hiddendashboard2.png)](https://help.mlc-wels.edu/uploads/images/gallery/2021-08/uw2hiddendashboard2.png)

- After setting your course to view, you might end up with orphaned activities, making it look like content has disappeared. See [Fixing Orphaned Activities ](https://help.mlc-wels.edu/books/moodle-for-faculty/page/fixing-orphaned-activities)to remedy this issue.
- Online instructors are encouraged to make their courses visible to students a few days prior to the start of the semester so that students can become familiar with the course layout and content.
- At the end of the semester, courses should be [hidden from student view](https://bookstack.mlc-wels.edu/books/moodle/page/set-course-to-hide) to protect copywritten material.

At the conclusion of a course or the semester, courses should be hidden from student view to protect copywritten material.

#### Instructions

1. Log into Moodle and click on the course that you'd like to make viewable.
2. From the course homepage, click on the gear menu in the upper right corner and choose **Edit Settings**.
3. Under the **General** heading, locate the dropdown menu to the right of **Course visibility.**
4. Choose **Hide.**
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose **Save and display**.