Course settings in Canvas

The Settings link in your Course Navigation Menu allows you to set different options for your Canvas course. This link is only available to instructors.  

For example, you can choose to: 

• Edit details for your Canvas course, for example, the availability of your Canvas course to students
• Change the image for your course card (which appears in your Dashboard).  
• The number of recent announcements on the Course Home Page
• Allow students to attach files to Discussions, edit or delete their discussion posts
• Disable comments on Announcements
• Edit or order your Course Navigation Menu

Find out more about course settings in this overview video (5:56 mins).

In Course Details, you can view the details of your subject site.  For example, the name of the subject, the file storage quota for the site and the grading schema for the subject.

• Add an image to a course card in the Dashboard
• Restrict student access to a course site

As an instructor, you can verify all external links throughout your course to ensure they are valid. You can check these links  by using the course link validator, which searches through course content and returns invalid or unresponsive external links in both published and unpublished content. However, please note that some links flagged as unresponsive are inaccessible by Canvas servers and will still work for students.

The link validator also includes deleted links. Deleted links are links that are still in the course, but their linked content (such as a file or page) has been deleted.

How do I validate links in a course?

The import course content tool allows you to copy parts or entire Canvas sites and bring content over from other sources.

How do I copy content from another Canvas course using the Course Import tool?
How do I select specific content as part of a course import?