Customizing your course menu is the key to a well-organized course in Canvas. A customized course menu helps to organize your course content and control the flow of information for your students. The course menu is located on the left-hand side of your course.
When organizing your course menu, you’ll first want to decide which menu items to show to students and which items to hide. To do this,
- Log-in to Canvas at https://umkc.instructure.com.
- Select and open the course you would like to customize from your Canvas Dashboard.
- Select Settings from the bottom of the course menu. (Note: The Settings button will always appear at the bottom of your course menu and is never available to student users.)
- At the top of the Settings page, select Navigation.
- To hide a button, click and drag the button below the header that reads Drag items here to hide them from students OR select the three-dot menu to the right of each menu item and select
- To make a button available, click and drag the button above the header that reads Drag items here to hide them from students OR select the three-dot menu to the right of each menu item and select
- After you have completed your changes, scroll to the bottom and select Save.
You can also alter the order of the buttons in the left-hand menu. To do this…
- Repeat steps 1-4 listed above.
- Click and drag menu items to reorder them OR select the three-dot menu to the right of each menu item and select
- Under the Move Navigation Item Menu, you can select At the Top, Before…,After…, or At the Bottom.
- Once you have made your selection, select Move.
- After you have completed your changes, scroll to the bottom and select Save.