{"id":4794,"date":"2020-12-15T12:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T12:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/digitaldevelopment\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:07:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:07:36","slug":"completing-the-academic-year-in-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/digitallearning\/blog\/completing-the-academic-year-in-canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"Canvas Course Term Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4794\" class=\"elementor elementor-4794\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b7a6517 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b7a6517\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e7eb44f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e7eb44f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the end of each Academic Year, courses in Canvas will become\u00a0<em>read-only<\/em>. 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