Locking and Unlocking Courses (New Teacher Experience)

Use locking and unlocking when you want to control course visibility within a class without removing the class itself.

This is helpful when you:

If you want to remove the entire class from both your view and student dashboards, use archiving instead.

Locking and unlocking applies to individual courses, not the entire class.

Unlocked courses
- Appear on the student dashboard
- Appear in your Gradebook
Locked courses
- Are hidden from students
- Do not display a Gradebook while locked

If you lock a course that students have already started:

When you unlock the course again, students pick up where they left off and progress reappears in the Gradebook.

These two options serve different purposes:

Lock a course
Keeps the class active while hiding selected courses from students
Archive a class
Removes the entire class and all courses from student access

If you only need to manage timing or pacing, locking courses is usually the better choice.

You can lock or unlock courses while managing your class, including:

When creating a class
- Choose whether each course starts locked or unlocked
When adding courses to an existing class
- Adjust lock settings before saving

Locked courses are visually marked so you can easily see which courses are hidden.

Archived Classes
Learn how to archive an entire class when it is no longer needed

Have more control over when students can access individual courses