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How to hide a course in Canvas

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Environment

  • Canvas

 

Solution

A course in Canvas will remain on the Dashboard for faculty and students while the term is active. Courses are automatically archived after a certain period, but it can be confusing to see previous semesters on your Canvas Dashboard. You cannot delete your courses, but you can hide courses that you are not enrolled in for the current semester. 

 

Below are the steps to hide previous semesters until they are systematically removed:

  1. From the Global Navigation panel (the main panel on the left), select Courses and All Courses
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  2. Click on the star next to the course you want to hide during the period before the course is archived
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  3. Your Canvas Dashboard will now show only the starred courses

 

 NOTE: Empty star = course is hidden on your dashboard; Filled star = course appears on your dashboard