Managing the courses on your Canvas Dashboard

If you are missing a course from your Canvas dashboard, there are a couple of things that you can check before reaching out to our team.

If you are an instructor/TA/grader/observer/course coordinator:

1. Make sure you are listed with that role in PeopleSoft (e.g., MyZou, Pathway, MyView, JoesSS).
2. Make sure that you have successfully completed the FERPA quiz.

If you are a student:

1. Check how long it has been since you registered for the course. Enrollments typically display in Canvas within 12 hours, but it can take up to 24.
2. Check to see if your instructor has published the course site and/or the availability date has passed by following steps 1 and 2, below, and looking for Future Enrollments.

If you are enrolled in the Canvas course and you would like it to show on your Canvas Dashboard, you can favorite or "star" that course.

If it is near the end of the semester and your course has disappeared, your instructor may have disabled student access to the course after its end date. In this case, please reach out to your instructor to request to be able to view the course after the end date. It is up to your instructor whether to allow or deny this permission.

Adding a course to your Canvas Dashboard

1. From the Global Navigation Menu, select Courses.
2. Select All Courses.
3. Find the course in the list and select the hollow star (see Fig. 1).
4. The star will fill in and turn orange (see Fig. 1).Figure 1: Favorite (marked with an orange star) and non-favorited (marked with a white star) courses
    
5. After starring your courses, go back to your Canvas Dashboard, and it will automatically filter for your favorited courses.

⚠️ Note: Once you have favorited any courses, only the favorited courses will display on your dashboard. Therefore, you will need to update your favorited courses in the future if you want to change which ones are on your dashboard.

⚠️ Note: Courses that are no longer active, or past enrollments, cannot be added back to your dashboard, even when marked as a favorite. 

Removing a course from your Canvas Dashboard

1. From the Global Navigation Menu, select Courses.
2. Select All Courses.
3. Find the course in the list, select a filled-in (orange) star to return it to its hollowed state.

Changing your Canvas Dashboard view

Select the three vertical dots towards the top of the page to change your Canvas Dashboard view (see Fig. 2).

Figure 2: Dashboard choices of Card view, recent activity and color overlay

• Card View shows the course cards of your favorite courses.
• List View shows the agenda items with To-Dos.
• Recent Activity View shows the recent activity from your courses.

The Viewing Canvas courses in the Dashboard article from Instructure contains additional information.

Canvas campus and vendor resources