Unfavorite a Course in Canvas Dashboard

Unfavorite a Course in Canvas Dashboard

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If your Canvas Dashboard feels cluttered, you can simplify it by unfavoriting courses you no longer want to see. Favoriting adds courses to your Dashboard, and unfavoriting removes them. Any published course listed under My Courses in the course list or Card View Dashboard can be marked as a favorite. Unfavoriting a course removes it from the dashboard and helps keep your view organized. 

By default, if you have no courses favorited, the Courses list displays up to 20 courses alphabetically. Once you favorite at least one course, only your selected courses appear in the list. 

Notes:

  • Only active, published courses can be favorited.

  • Unpublished, future or past enrollments cannot be favorited.

  • Concluded courses appear under Past Enrollments. They stay in your favorites until you manually remove them.

Table labeled Past Enrollments with columns for Favorite Course Nickname Term Enrolled as, and Published shows Biology 101 listed twice with star icons for favoriting
  • Once you manually favorite at least one course, Canvas automatically adds any new published enrollments to your favorites.

You can unfavorite courses by following these steps: 

  1. Go to Dashboard, where all your courses are displayed. 

Canvas dashboard with six course cards, each showing course titles, colored banners, and a background of a building with a tower. The sidebar on the left includes Account, Dashboard, Courses, Groups, Calendar, Inbox, History, Studio, Commons, and Help icons.
  1. In the top right corner of the course you want to unfavorite, click the three dots, then click the Move tab. 

Canvas dashboard with a dropdown menu open on the Librarian Training course card. The menu displays options to move the card down, move to the bottom, or unfavorite the course. The rest of the dashboard and sidebar navigation are partially visible.
  1. Click Unfavorite next to the star icon. 

Canvas dashboard with the Librarian Training course card, showing an open menu with options to move the card down, move it to the bottom, or unfavorite it. The menu has tabs for Color and Move, and part of another course card is visible below.
  1. An Unfavorite [Course Name] notification will pop up on your screen. To confirm, click Submit.  

Confirmation dialog for unfavoriting the Librarian Training course, explaining it will be removed from the dashboard but still accessible through All Courses. Contains Close and Submit buttons.

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