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The Course Navigation Menu is a series of links on the left side of your course that help you and your students access different course areas. The Course Navigation Menu is always visible on its respective pages.

Depending on the structure of your course, you can choose to reorder and hide course navigation links. You can also add an image to a course card in the Dashboard to give your course a visual theme.

View Course Navigation Menu

The active link is highlighted with different color text and a line indicator. This highlight helps you quickly identify the feature area you are currently viewing in Canvas.

Links that are hidden to students are indicated by the Visibility icon. A link may be hidden to students because the feature area has no content or because the link is disabled.

The Home page is part of Course Navigation and displays the Course Home Page.

By default, at University of Liverpool new courses show links leading to the index pages for the following areas:

Home
Ally Accessibility Report
Announcements
Assignments
Course Surveys
Grades
Modules
New Analytics
People
Reading Lists @ Liverpool
Stream Lectures
Studio
BigBlueButton
Collaborations
Discussions
Files
Outcomes
Pages
Quizzes
Rubrics
Syllabus
Search
Settings

As an instructor, you can control which links appear in Course Navigation. Canvas includes a set of default Course Navigation links that are shown by default and cannot be renamed. Depending on your course configuration, other links may be available and may be customizable.

Links to sections that don't have any content and that students cannot create content for will be automatically hidden for students and will display the Visibility icon to instructors. For example, if there are no learning outcomes set for the course, you will see the Outcomes link with the Visibility icon, but students will not see the link at all. Configured External Apps may create additional Course Navigation links.

Disabling a course navigation link creates the following redirects:

Hidden only (cannot be disabled but still accessible via direct URL): Discussions and Grades
Page disabled; redirected to Home page: Announcements, Assignments, Conferences, Collaborations, Files, Modules, Outcomes, Quizzes, Pages, People, Rubrics, and Syllabus
Page disabled; won't appear in navigation: Any LTI links, such as Attendance, Chat, and SCORM

Reordering and hiding Course Navigation links for Announcements, Assignments, Discussions, and Files also affects the course tabs in the Dashboard course view for all users. Additionally, disabling the Files link will hide the Files tab in the Content Selector in the Rich Content Editor for students.

The following course navigation links will still be visible to instructors even if they have been hidden or disabled: Home, Announcements, Assignments, Collaborations, Conferences, Discussions, Files, Grades, Modules, Outcomes, Pages, People, Quizzes, Rubrics, Settings, and Syllabus.

How to Personalise your Course Menu

Open Settings

In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.

Open Navigation

Click the Navigation tab.

You can also use the Move To option to reorder an navigation link. Click the Options icon [1] and select the Move link [2].

Note: The Move To option only moves an navigation link within its respective section (visible or hidden). Hidden items must first be enabled before they can be ordered among visible navigation items. A hidden item cannot be moved directly to the enabled link section using the Move To option.

Place Before or After

If you selected the Before or After option, click the second drop-down menu [1]. Select the navigation link that should be before or after the link you are moving, as indicated by the option selected in the previous menu [2].

If you want to move the navigation link to another location, change the sidebar placement options as needed.

Hide Navigation Links

To hide a navigation link, click the link Options icon [1] and select the Disable option [2].

You can also drag and drop the link to the hidden section at the bottom of the page.

Save Navigation

Click the Save button.

View the Course Navigation Menu. Navigation links will display in the same order that you have designated in Course Settings.

Any Course Navigation link that is hidden from students displays the Visibility icon [1]. A link may be hidden to students because the feature area has no content [2] or because the link is disabled [3]. Links that are manually disabled by a course instructor display at the bottom of the Course Navigation Menu above the Settings link.

The content of this page is taken from How do I manage Course Navigation links? in the Instructure Community