How can I customize Canvas navigation and settings?
Answer
What It Is:
Navigational tab in your course where you can customize course settings. Five tabs within Settings unlock keys to your course options.
Why It's Awesome:
- Course Details tab (commonly used settings)
- Add Course Image - customize the course image that you would like to display for students in your course card.
- Show recent announcements on Course home page - allows you to enable this feature, along with how many announcements to show (up to 15.)
- Let students attach files to Discussions can be enabled/disabled here.
- Let students edit/delete Discussion posts can be enabled/disabled here.
- Disable comments on Announcements can be enabled/disabled here.
- Navigation
- Instructors have the ability to customize and organize course navigation menu items, making the student experience cleaner and more streamlined.
- Apps
- Depending on your institution's Canvas settings, you may have the ability to add Apps, also called External Tools or LTIs.
- Feature Options
- Additional opt-in Canvas feature options can be enabled here for your course. Stay up-to-date with the newest updates and features.
Ways to Make It More Awesome:
- Changing the language settings for your course can be done in the Course Settings too; whatever language you select will flow down to all enrolled in the course.
Explore these Canvas Guides for more info: