Canvas Dashboard

The Dashboard consists of three main elements:

  1. Global Navigation across the top of the page,
  2. the Sidebar with various types of feeds, and
  3. Recent Activity, which comprises the main body of the page.

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1. Global Navigation directs users to menus or pages that display:

  • all of a user's courses and groups,
  • a grade summary page, and
  • the Calendar.

2. Sidebar includes a "Coming Up" area, showing assignments that will be due soon, with links to be able to go directly to the assignments, and a "Recent Feedback" area, showing any new comments from your Canvas courses.

3. Recent Activity area shows categories for Announcements, Conversations, Assignment Notifications, and Discussions. Clicking on a category expands it to be able to view the new items in each; the category can then be minimized to save space.

These menus and pages will display different items.For example, under Assignments, students will see assignments that need to be turned in.