00:07: How do I use the coarse homepage as a student?

00:10: In global navigation click the courses link then click the name

00:14: of the course.

00:16: The course home page involves course navigation the content area and

00:20: the sidebar.

00:22: The course homepage is viewed from the course navigation Homelink.

00:27: Course navigation includes links that help you and your students get to specific locations

00:31: in the course instructors can customize what links are

00:35: shown in a course. So if you don't see links that may display and other courses your

00:39: instructor has hidden those links from your view.

00:42: The active link of the page you are viewing is highlighted with different color text

00:46: and a line indicator. This highlight helps you quickly identify the

00:50: feature area. You are currently viewing in canvas.

00:55: You may also see course indicators that show updates to your course grades when your instructor

00:59: grades your assignments.

01:02: To expand or collapse, of course navigation, then you click the menu icon when

01:07: you choose to expand or collapse the global navigation menu.

01:10: Your preference is applied to all of your courses.

01:14: Home page content and all Candace content is displayed in the content

01:18: area. The content can be a page the syllabus

01:22: discussions announcements quizzes or imported

01:26: content the content could also show the course activity stream,

01:30: which is a list of all recent activity in the course.

01:35: Your homepage may also display recent announcements at the top of the page.

01:39: The homepage content also defines what sections display in the sidebar

01:45: Bread crumbs appear above the course content area As

01:49: you view course content the breadcrumbs leave a trail to show where you were inside

01:53: the course, you can follow these links backward to visit prior course

01:57: content.

01:59: The sidebar functions the same as the dashboard sidebar, but only shows content

02:03: for the specific course and includes additional options.

02:07: If your course homepage displays a page other than the course activity stream,

02:11: you can view the course activity stream by clicking the sidebar view course

02:15: stream button when the homepage is set as a course activity Street.

02:19: This button will not appear.

02:22: If you have been added to a group in your course, the course group section

02:26: includes links to your course groups.

02:29: The sidebar always shows it to do section which shows all recent announcements

02:33: and up to seven assignments that are due in the upcoming weeks including ungraded

02:37: quizzes and assignments that do not require a submission each item

02:41: in the to-do list displays the assignment name the number of points and the

02:45: due date for the assignment. Once the due date has passed items

02:49: remain in this section for 4 weeks.

02:53: The sidebar can also include a variety of other sections depending

02:57: on the layout your instructor sets for the course homepage additional

03:01: sidebar options include the assignment list calendar and assignment groups

03:05: and recent feedback.

03:08: Each section item displays an icon to differentiate between assignments and

03:12: peer-review assignments. It's a section contains more items

03:16: that are listed a link will appear under the list that you can use to view additional

03:20: items.

03:22: The to do section shows up to seven items with due dates in the upcoming weeks

03:26: to view more items.

03:28: You must manually remove items from the list to remove a

03:32: to-do item. Click the remove icon.

03:35: This guy covered how to use the course home page as a student.