Make Course Available

Making a BeachBoard Course Available to Students

BeachBoard Services automatically creates a new BeachBoard course for every course each term, but you need to manually make your BeachBoard course available so that your students can see and access your course content. Courses that are not currently available to your students show the word "unavailable" next to those courses' titles under My Courses.

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Make a Course Available

  1. Login to BeachBoard. https://beachboard.csulb.edu/
  2. Under My Courses, click the name of the course you would like to make available.
  3. Click the course's Control Panel link.
  4. Under Course Options, click the Settings link.
  5. Click the Course Availability link.
  6. Choose Yes to the right of the words Make Course Available.
  7. Click the Submit button.

Your course is now available to your students. You will need to repeat this process for each course you wish to make available.

More Information

Q: Do I need to make my BeachBoard course unavailable at the end of the semester?
A: No. BeachBoard Services automatically makes all BeachBoard courses unavailable and disables student access to those courses approximately two weeks after the end of the semester.

Q: If my BeachBoard course is made unavailable two weeks after the end of the semester, how will my students be able to view their grades?
A: Students can view their official University grades in MyCSULB.

Q: If a BeachBoard course is unavailable, does that mean that I can no longer access it?
A: No. BeachBoard courses remain available to instructors for up to two years. It is the instructor's responsibility to archive, download, and print out the gradebook.

Q: Can I make a course from a previous semester available again?
A: Yes, but it is not as simple as you manually making your old course available. Because BeachBoard Services automatically makes all BeachBoard courses unavailable and disables student access to those courses approximately two weeks after the end of the semester, you will need to ask BeachBoard Services to re-enable the students in your previous semester BeachBoard courses before those students will be able to re-access your old BeachBoard course content.