Finding and Organizing Courses
By Default, the Dashboard and Courses links in the Global Navigation will display courses that are in active terms. This will include any current term and the continual terms for organizations and development course shells.
However, you can use the Star icons to favorite courses in the All Course list to instead choose which courses show on the Dashboard and Courses list. Once you have begun to mark courses as Favorited, only they will show on the Dashboard and in the Courses List. Which means that from then on, you will need to manually update your dashboard to unfavorite courses in previous terms and add the courses for the new term.
Dashboard
The Dashboard is your landing page in Canvas.
Our dashboard defaults to the Card View, but you can switch that to a Recent Activity View instead.
To learn more, see the Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I use the Dashboard as an instructor?
If you need, you can use the Move option in the Options menu for the Course Cards to organize your courses. You can also drag and drop the Course Cards to rearrange them.
To learn more, see the Canvas Instructor Guide: How do I view my favorite courses in the Card View Dashboard as an instructor?
Courses
00:07: How do I view all my canvas courses as a student? 00:11: In global navigation, click the courses link. 00:13: Then click the all courses link. 00:17: Courses are organized into all courses past enrollments, future 00:21: enrollments and groups. 00:24: Courses can be sorted by favorite status name nickname 00:28: term enrollment status and publish status by selecting. 00:32: The sort icon in the header groups are sorted alphabetically by 00:36: group name. 00:38: If Allowed by your institution, you can do the institutions public course 00:42: index in a catalog format by clicking the browse more courses button. 00:47: All courses are courses that are part of the current semester or term. 00:50: However, depending on access settings, for a course, 00:54: my course is can also display courses that have not yet started or unpublished. 01:00: Active courses that are available to you are listed in blue text, these 01:04: courses have been published and include a link to the course to open 01:08: a course, click the name of the course. 01:11: Courses that are within the current term dates but are not yet available are listed in Black 01:15: text. These courses have not been published and no link is available. 01:20: You can also view any nicknames you have created for courses. 01:24: Is a course, includes a term date. The term date displays. 01:29: Each course includes your role in the course. 01:31: Your Role can be student teacher, ta Observer 01:35: designer or a custom roll created by your Institution. 01:40: Any all courses section. You can customize the courses list and Mark courses 01:44: as favorites. Favorite courses display in the card view dashboard. 01:50: You can change the order that courses are listed by clicking the sort icon in the header. 01:54: The column currently use for sorting displays either the ascending 01:58: or descending icon to indicate the sort order. 02:02: Courses under the past enrollments heading our courses that have concluded, but are still available 02:06: as a read-only archive course. 02:08: You can do course, material and grades but can no longer participate 02:12: in the course. 02:14: Future enrollments are courses. That will be made available as part of an upcoming term 02:18: or specific course start date. Future courses may be published or 02:22: unpublished. However, some institutions May restrict you from being 02:26: published courses before the start date. 02:28: If a future course, includes a link. 02:31: You can do course content but cannot fully participate in the course until 02:35: the start date. Participation include submitting, assignments and 02:39: replying to discussions. It's a future course, does not include 02:44: a link. The course, cannot be viewed until the start date. 02:49: If you are enrolled in groups, the group section displays any groups within 02:53: your current courses. You can do, all your groups in your groups list. 02:58: To view a group home page, click the group named link. 03:03: You can locate your course, ID number at the end of your course URL. 03:08: This guy covered how to view all my canvas courses as a student.
All Courses
In Global Navigation, click the Courses link [1], then click the All Courses link [2].
Courses are organized into All Courses [1], Past Enrollments [2], Future Enrollments [3], and Groups [4].
Courses can be sorted by Favorite status, Name, Nickname, Term, enrollment status, and Published status by selecting the Sort icon in the header [5]. Groups are sorted alphabetically by group name.
If allowed by your institution, you can view the institution's public course index in a catalog format by clicking the Browse More Courses button [6].
Troubleshooting Dashboard Visibility
If a course disappears from your Dashboard after a role or enrollment change, check the All Courses list and re-favorite it. Only favorited courses appear on the Dashboard. If you are marking courses as favorites, you will need to manually update which courses are favoried every term to remove past terms from your list and add the new courses.
Banner Sync Delays
Changes in instructor assignments may take up to 24 hours to reflect in Canvas. If your course is missing, verify your Banner assignment and check again later.
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