Navigating Canvas and the Dashboard

Allison McComb Updated by Allison McComb

We encourage you to familiarize yourself with all of the features on the Canvas (lms.ecornell.com).

Your core Dashboard shows all active courses on one page, as well as menu choices on the left-hand side.

Favoriting Courses

You are able to favorite courses, or tie them to your Dashboard by following these steps:

  1. Click the Courses icon from the left-hand navigation menu, and click All Courses
  1. Click the star to the right of the section you would like to favorite

This feature will allow them to be permanently tied to your Dashboard. However, please note if you do this, only courses that have been "favorited" will appear on your Dashboard.

If you use the "favoriting" feature all newly assigned courses will go to the "All Courses" area by default.

You will need to star/or favorite each new course you are assigned before it appears on your Dashboard.
Finding Previous Courses

Please visit this article for a visual walkthrough on finding your previous courses that have ended.

Canvas Accessibility Settings

You are able to edit some accessibility settings in Canvas, such as enabling a immersive reader, or Dyslexia-Friendly Font by clicking your avatar photo, and navigating to Settings:

On the Settings page, scrolling down to User: Feature will allow you to change these settings:

Currently, eCornell does not have a customization available for Dark Mode. However, there are dark mode features available for Canvas through different web sources at your own discretion. You may implement an extension on your browser if you would like. Note that eCornell does not endorse one specific platform or extension over any others.

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