{"id":3617,"date":"2020-03-18T05:10:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/?page_id=3617"},"modified":"2020-03-18T05:10:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T05:10:07","slug":"configure-course-site-navigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.education.uw.edu\/technologycenter\/canvas-resources-for-faculty\/configure-course-site-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Configure Course Site Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Set a Course Home Page<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Course Home Page is the page that students will be taken to when they click the Home link in the left-hand course navigation menu. It\u2019s also the first page seen for each course. There are five different options for your course home page: Modules, which displays all modules in the course, Syllabus, which uses the syllabus page as the home page, Course Activity Stream, which shows recent activity in the course, Pages Front Page, which displays a specific page set as the \u201cfront page,\u201d or the Assignment List, which shows all upcoming and completed assignments in the course. The default home page setting uses Modules.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All course home page options can <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/community.canvaslms.com\/docs\/DOC-13115-4152682262\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">display recent announcements<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the top of the page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Set up Course Navigation<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an instructor, you can control which links appear to students in the left-hand course navigation menu. 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