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  • Canvas
    • Access Canvas
    • Import Content into Your Canvas Course
    • Upload Your Syllabus
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Review the Course-Launch Checklist
    • Publish Your Canvas Course
    • Understanding Your Canvas Courses Menu
  • Get Started In Canvas
    • Basic Computer Specifications for Canvas
    • Canvas-Supported Browsers
    • Customize User Display Settings
    • Customize Your Notifications
    • Your Canvas Dashboard
    • Customize "My Courses"
    • Get Started With The Calendar
    • Canvas on a Mobile Device
    • Link Canvas Courses
  • Design Your Course
    • Options To Organize Content
    • Set Up A Homepage
    • Import Content Into Your Canvas Course
      • Remove announcements when copying a Canvas site
      • Adjusting dates when copying a Canvas site
    • Recommended Course-level Settings
    • Modify Your Course Menu
    • Get Started with the Rich Content Editor
    • Get Started With Modules
    • Get Started With Pages
    • Get Started With Files
    • Student View
    • Share Your Syllabus
    • Library Content
    • Add Media In Canvas
    • Canvas Commons
  • Assignments and Grades
    • Get Started With Assignments
    • Get Started with Quizzes
      • Building a Quiz and Grading a Quiz
      • Quiz Options for Supporting Academic Integrity and Accommodating Individual Student Needs
      • Get Started with LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor
    • Introducing New Quizzes
      • Migrating Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes
      • Building a New Quiz
      • Accessibility & Accommodations in New Quizzes
      • New Quizzes Support for Academic Integrity
      • Grading New Quizzes
    • Get Started with the Gradebook
      • Posting Grades and Feedback
      • Troubleshooting in the Canvas Gradebook
    • Take Attendance In Canvas
    • Student View Of Grades
    • SpeedGrader
    • Grading Schemes
    • Rubrics
    • Peer Review
    • Canvas Discussions
  • People and Groups
    • Add People To Canvas
    • User Roles + Permissions
    • Get Started With Groups
    • Get Started With Analytics
  • Model Canvas Courses
  • Canvas Guide for Students
    • Changing Your Display Name and Setting Pronouns
    • Syllabus Search Student Guide
    • Using the Immersive Reader

Modify Your Course Menu

The Navigation bar on the left-hand side of your course pages allows course participants to access different areas of the course site.  Instructors have the capacity to restrict what students can access in course navigation.

TIP: As a general rule, restrict access to features that you will not be using in Canvas to avoid potential student confusion.

Here are some general considerations about what you may wish to hide from student view:

  • Grades:
    You may wish to hide Grades from students.  Removing this item on the course navigation bar, however, will not prevent students from accessing grades in your course, as they can still access grades through the “Assignments” area of Canvas.  We recommend, therefore, that you remove Grades from the left navigation only if you do not plan to use Canvas grading at all in your course.
  • Syllabus:
    The Syllabus feature in Canvas links to a Canvas page that can be used as a Syllabus. It is not a direct link to your PDF/Word syllabus. If you prefer only to upload your syllabus as a traditional PDF/Word file, it can be helpful to remove this link to prevent student confusion.
  • People:
    It can be helpful to keep access to People available as it allows students to communicate and collaborate with one another.

For further information, see these guides from Instructure:

  • How do I use the Course Navigation Menu?
  • How do I reorder and hide Course Navigation links?
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