{"id":126,"date":"2026-03-30T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging-support.learninglink.oup.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2026-05-14T14:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:54:26","slug":"error-course-not-started-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/student-support\/error-course-not-started-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"I received an error message saying my Oxford Learning Link course has not started yet and that I should contact my instructor. What does this mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting on&nbsp;<strong>18 December 2025<\/strong>, instructors must be the first user to launch a course by opening an OUP resource within the course. This ensures accurate institution and course details for better functionality and support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your instructor has not clicked an OUP resource in the course before you tried to access it, you will see this error.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"586\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-support.learninglink.oup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/04\/canvas_course_not_activated.jpg\" alt=\"Error message telling the user that their course has not yet been activated\" class=\"wp-image-277\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What to do:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Contact your instructor and ask them to click on any OUP resource in the course to launch it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If they need help, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/s\/contactsupport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/contact-us\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"63\">Contact Us<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting on&nbsp;18 December 2025, instructors must be the first user to launch a course by opening an OUP resource within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/what-is-oxford-reading-buddy.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15,13],"tags":[62,56,40],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-support","category-troubleshooting","category-using-my-resources","tag-course-availability","tag-errors","tag-onboarding"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.6","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["en","es","de","fr","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.learninglink.oup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}