It is useful to associate courses with terms so that they appear organized in the Courses view, as well as allowing us, from administration, to manage dates, openings, and closings in bulk for all courses in a term. 

You can associate courses with terms when they are created.

Manually associating existing courses

To associate an existing course with a term, go to Admin Panel > Courses > Courses and search for the course or courses.

Select the checkboxes of the courses to associate and click Associate (the buttons are both at the top and bottom of the table) Click Terms. 

A new window will open where you will see the list of terms already existing in the system. Select the term to which you want to add the courses and click Submit.

You can also assign the term to the course by clicking Edit in the course's contextual menu and selecting the term from a dropdown. Remember to save the changes.

Associating existing courses with the SIS integration

If you have many courses to associate, it may be useful to perform this procedure using a SIS integration. 

The upload file is the one used when creating courses, adding a few more fields:

• EXTERNAL_TERM_KEY contains the external key of the term
• USE_TERM_AVAILABILITY_IND controls whether the course will follow the availability of the term. If it has the value Y, then AVAILABLE_IND, STARTDATE, and ENDDATE of the term will be used. If it is N, those of the course will be used.

The upload file will therefore look like this, and it is uploaded to the courses endpoint:

EXTERNAL_COURSE_KEY|COURSE_ID|COURSE_NAME|EXTERNAL_TERM_KEY|USE_TERM_AVAILABILITY_IND
codigo001|codigo001|Physics|2026SPRING|Y
codigo002|codigo002|Mathematics|2026SPRING|N

Now you just have to upload the integration file.