Customizing the Canvas Dashboard
Introduction
The Card View Dashboard displays course cards for all your favorite active courses. Course Cards can help you organize your courses by adding a nickname or customizing the color, Links to an external site. which is synced with the color shown for the course in the Calendar.
The Card View Dashboard also includes the Dashboard sidebar, which includes items in your To-Do list and includes a link to the global Grades page.
You can change your Dashboard view at any time using the Dashboard Options icon.
Favorited courses are removed from the Card View Dashboard when the course is concluded. Concluded courses that were previously favorited are still shown as favorited in the Courses list.
The Dashboard View
Changing the Dashboard View
There are three ways to view your Dashboard: Card View, List View or Recent Activity View. The default view is Card View. To change your Dashboard view, click the Options menu and select your preferred viewing option.
- Card View: displays course cards for quick access to all your favorite courses (the same courses display in the Courses link from the Global Navigation Menu)
- List View (Links to an external site.): displays all course to-do items in an agenda view
- Recent Activity View: displays all recent activity for all courses
Customizing the Course List
When you are enrolled in more than one Canvas course, you can customize the active courses you want to show in your Course list. Courses you want to show in the Courses drop-down menu are called favorite courses. You can favorite any published course that appears in the My Courses section on the course list page. Course favorites also display in the Card View Dashboard.
When no courses are favorited, the courses list automatically displays up to 20 courses alphabetically in the drop-down menu. However, once you have selected at least one course as a favorite, only your favorite courses will appear in the Courses list.
The Course List includes a course card for each of your favorited published and/or unpublished courses with quick links to main course features.
In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the All Courses link [2].
To favorite a course, click the star next to a course [1]. Courses with filled stars show the course is a favorite [2].
Learn how to customize your Courses list as a student? Links to an external site.
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