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 Canvas Dashboard

Your Canvas home screen is called the dashboard. From this screen you can navigate to all the different areas of Canvas. The dashboard has three areas: course cards, side panel, and the navigation bar. Learn more about these sections below.

Course Cards

The course cards are the links to your teacher's courses. Each card can include up to four notification icons, which represent the four main Canvas features for student course activity: Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Files.  Depending on the teacher's course settings, not all four of these icons will be visible.  New activity within each Canvas feature is designated with a blue indicator on the icon.

 

Changing Your View

Card View is the normal view of your home screen, but you can also change your preferred dashboard layout to Recent Activity or List View. To change your view, select the peapod icon at the top of your Canvas dashboard, next to the Orientation icon, and select a different view. 

List view is an agenda-style view that shows past and future assignments, points possible, and an indicator when an assignment has been graded:

Recent activity view is a newsfeed style view that shows recent announcements, new and upcoming assignments, and grade notifications:

Side Panel

In Card View, the dashboard has a panel on the right side of the home screen with 3 sections:

  1. The To Do section lists unread announcements, upcoming (or missing) assignments, and calendar events . Each item in the To Do list displays the assignment name, the number of points, and the due date for the assignment. Open a link to view more information about the item or select the X next to an item to remove it from your to do list
  2. Recent Feedback lists assignments recently graded by your teacher. You will see your score and any comments left by your teacher.
  3. The View Grades button opens a page that shows a list of all your courses and current grades.

The To Do and Recent Feedback section will show a limited number of items. Use the Show All link to see more items.

Navigation Bar

The gray navigation bar will appear on the left side of every screen in Canvas. It has the following menu items:

  • Account: Here you can change your profile image, pronouns, etc.
  • Dashboard: Takes you back to the home screen.
  • Courses: Select this to view a list of your courses. This is helpful if you have you English course open and want to open you math course without going back to the dashboard.
  • Groups: You will see this if one of your teacher has put you in a group in Canvas for a class project or other activity.
  • Calendar: Shows assignments, announcements, and other events in monthly or weekly view.
  • Inbox: Class messages to or from your teachers.
  • History: Quick way to go back to Canvas pages you've recently viewed.
  • Search: Tool to find an assignment or content page in your courses.
  • Help: Links to common questions and guides.
  • Grades: Summary of your current grade averages in Canvas.