Marking a Canvas Course as a “Favorite”

Canvas allows you to “favorite” active courses so that they appear on your Dashboard and on your Courses global navigation menu.

  • If no courses are “favorited”, then up to 20 of your courses will automatically show on your Canvas Dashboard.
  • Example: If you “favorite” five active courses, then only those five courses will appear on your Canvas Dashboard. All other courses will have to be accessed via the Courses >> All Courses screen.

Favoriting Canvas Courses via the All Courses Screen

  1. In Global Navigation, click the Courses link.
  2. Select All Courses from the fly-out menu.
  3. On the All Courses screen, active courses will be displayed near the top of the screen. Past Enrollments appears below them.
  4. In the left-hand Favorite column, click the star icon next to any active course to mark it as a “favorite”. The course will now be displayed on your Canvas Dashboard.
Courses can be "favorited" by going to the "Courses" >> "All Courses" screen in Canvas. Users can "favorite" any active courses by clicking the star icon to the left of the course name.
  1. Repeat Step #4 for any additional courses you wish to “favorite”.

Unfavoriting a Course from the Canvas Dashboard

If you have “favorited” a course that you no longer want to see on your Canvas Dashboard, you can “unfavorite” that course directly from the Dashboard without having to go to your Courses >> All Courses screen. From the Canvas Dashboard:

  1. Click on the three-dot kebab icon at the upper right corner of any course card.
On the Canvas Dashboard, click on the three-dot kebab icon at the top right corner of any course card to bring up a small menu. Select the "Move" tab, and then choose "Unfavorite".
  1. Click the Move tab.
  2. Select Unfavorite.

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