1.1 Customizing Your Home Page

Overview

When designing your new course, you get to decide what displays on the home page. You can display the course syllabus, a list of course modules, a custom page of content like this one, or several other options.

On the home page of your Canvas course, look for the Choose Home Page icon (pictured below) to select what you'd like to display for your course.

screenshot of homepage options: activity stream, pages front page, modules, assignments list and syllabus.

Depending on which option you select, the home page also provides icons for quick access to the Course Stream, Calendar, Campus Notifications, as well as recent Announcements and a running To Do list at the top right of the page. In this course, we've selected an option in our Course Details settings to display only 1 (the most recent) announcement at the top of the home page.