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Home » Faculty Tutorials » Canvas » Clean Up Your Canvas Dashboard

February 24, 2022 By Sandra Childers

Clean Up Your Canvas Dashboard

Have trouble finding your current courses? Want a faster way to get to the courses you need most? Clean up your Canvas Dashboard in 3 easy steps; save yourself time every time you log in.

1.5-minute video by Lani Draper

Topics: Canvas


Transcript – Clean Up Your Canvas Dashboard (pdf) (75 KB)

Clean Your Dashboard in 3 Steps:

  1. Go to Courses, then select All Courses. This displays all the courses on which you have an account.
  2. Click the star icon for each course you want to display on your Dashboard.
  3. Go to your Dashboard.

Step 1 – Select “All Courses”

Once you log in to Canvas, click the Courses link in the global navigation menu on the far left. Then you can click on the All Courses link to display every course.

When you click Courses in the left-hand global navigation, the All Courses link will appear near the bottom of the popup window.

Step 2 – Star Courses

Now you can “star” (or favorite) any course you want to be included on your Dashboard page in Canvas. Look at the star icon. Any course with the icon filled in with orange will appear on your Dashboard. Click on any course’s star icon to toggle whether it will display. A filled star will show it, and an empty star will not.

Starred courses will show on the Canvas Dashboard. Courses with a non-filled star will not display on your Canvas Dashboard.

Step 3 – Go to Dashboard

Go to your Dashboard to see a much cleaner version of your course list. You can always return to the All Courses menu to make changes.

Dashboard page in Canvas with only two published courses displayed at the top and two unpublished courses shown at the bottom.

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