2.3 | Course Settings

TILLING THE SOIL

Settings is a navigational tab in your course where you can customize many settings. Five tabs within Settings unlock keys to your course options.

You can control all of these settings in your course:

Course Details Tab
- Show recent announcements on Course home page: Allows you to enable this feature, along with how many announcements to show (up to 15)
- Let students attach files to Discussions: Can be enabled/disabled here
- Let students edit/delete Discussion posts: Can be enabled/disabled here
- Disable comments on Announcements: Can be enabled/disabled here
Sections
- Depending on your institution's Canvas settings, you may have the ability to create new sections and/or crosslist courses into sections in one course
Navigation
- Instructors have the ability to determine which areas in their courses are available to students by customizing the Course Navigation, making the student experience cleaner and more streamlined
Apps
- Depending on your institution's Canvas settings, you may have the ability to add Apps, also called External Tools or LTIs
Feature Options
- Additional opt-in Canvas feature options can be enabled here for your course

A few more things to consider about Settings are below:

Depending on your institution's Canvas settings, you may have the ability to enable a self-enroll option for your course; this creates an enroll code and generates a specific url that can be shared with people you wish to invite to your course
Setting a language for your course can also be enabled here; whatever language you select will flow down to all enrolled in the course

Need more information? Check out this Canvas Guide!