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Settings

Use Settings to control the course details, dates, registration window, notation, and publication status.

Course details​

The settings form includes:

  • Course Name, the full title students see
  • Course Code, the short identifier, which AFCT saves in uppercase
  • Semester
  • Credits, from 1 through 6
  • Course timezone
  • Start Date & Time and End Date & Time
  • Self Registration Opens and Self Registration Closes
  • Empty string notation, either epsilon or lambda

Select Save Changes after editing these fields.

Choose the timezone first​

The course timezone controls how AFCT interprets course dates and every assignment deadline. Students may view a formatted time in their own context, but the deadline is anchored to the course timezone.

Set the timezone before creating assignments. If you change it later, review the course dates, registration window, and assignment deadlines to make sure they still represent the times you intended.

Set the registration window​

Students can use the course registration code only between Self Registration Opens and Self Registration Closes. The course must also be published.

These dates do not prevent Faculty or TAs from directly enrolling an existing AFCT account from the Roster page.

Publish the course​

The Published switch is in the Course Status card. It takes effect as soon as you confirm it, so you do not need to select Save Changes afterward.

When published, enrolled students can see the course. When unpublished, only course staff and site administrators can open it.

AFCT will not let you unpublish a course that already has submissions or grades. If the switch cannot be turned off, preserve the course as published or ask a site administrator to help with the intended workflow.

Archived courses​

An archived course is read-only. Its settings and publication switch cannot be changed. Archiving and restoring are site administrator actions and are available from the course list, not from this page.