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Because Canvas course spaces are considered academic record, they fall within the University's Student Record Retention Policy.
In order to follow these policies, instructor edit access to a course is removed at the close of the course to preserve the archival state of the course. It is important to note that if a course is closed, instructors and students will still be able to view all content they could previously access during the semester. Instructions for viewing a previously published course can be found in the Missing Courses on Canvas Dashboard knowledge base article.
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