# Course Moderation and Visibility of Courses

**URL:** <https://discuss.openedx.org/t/course-moderation-and-visibility-of-courses/3028>\
**Category:** Authoring\
**Tags:** how-to\
**Created:** [August 21, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/course-moderation-and-visibility-of-courses/3028 "2020-08-21T20:32:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Sandesh\_Yadav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sandesh_yadav/32/880_2.png) [@Sandesh\_Yadav](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Sandesh_Yadav)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 8:32pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/course-moderation-and-visibility-of-courses/3028/1 "2020-08-21T20:32:30Z")

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I need a simple feature related to course moderation. As long as a moderator does not accept a course, it _should **not** be visible_ to other users(except the course creator and staff/superuser).

Basically in other CMSes, we have a feature called **publish/unpublish** an article. We can make an article to be **unpublished** (and not visible to anonymous users) by default. After the **moderator publishes it** , it will be _visible to general users_.

I am looking for a **similar workflow** in OPENedX. How can I achieve it?

Another related question: How to make a course invisible(=not listed in /courses page)?

I have tried the following: In Course’s Advanced Settings,

**Course Visibility For Unenrolled Learners = "private"**  
**Course Visibility In Catalog = "none"**

But the course is still listed in [example.com/courses](http://example.com/courses) page. I tried restarting LMS and CMS after making those changes but the courses are still visible.

How to fix these issues? Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![mahyard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/mahyard/32/54_2.png) [@mahyard](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/mahyard)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/course-moderation-and-visibility-of-courses/3028/2 "2020-08-22T19:00:53Z")

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Hi,  
I was very excited on this feature some day and actually I am yet. but unfortunately doesn’t have such ability.  
the only way, you can approach your intend and as I know they use in [edx.org](http://edx.org) is to have 2 completely separate studio’s. one as stage environment and the other as publish env. only authorized people have access to the second environment. and they should export ready courses from stage and import them into the publish studio.  
learners will see any course which scheduled on publish studio.

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**Author:** ![Sandesh\_Yadav](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/sandesh_yadav/32/880_2.png) [@Sandesh\_Yadav](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Sandesh_Yadav)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 11:38am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/course-moderation-and-visibility-of-courses/3028/3 "2020-08-23T11:38:28Z")

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Thank you so much for the response.