Show or Hide Navigation Menu Items

When you edit the navigation menu, it edits it for the students, hiding it from their view. You’ll know it’s hidden when you see the slash through an eye next to the tab (An eye icon with a slash through it.). It’s recommended to give Students limited access to tabsin their navigation menu, so they actually go through the course content and not jump around to assignments or quizzes before reviewing the content. 

  1. Click Settings at the bottom of the course navigation.

 

Navigation menu on Canvas with an arrow pointing at settings.2. Click the Navigation tab at the top.

Settings menu with 'navigation' in a circle.

3. Drag items you don’t want students to see down to the gray Disabled section. Or click the three-dot menu next to an item and select Disable.

Navigation menu, with notebook being dragged down to the disabled section.      In the navigation menu, in the three-dot menu with the button 'disabled' highlighted.

  1. Click Save at the bottom.