Once your Canvas Dashboard fills up with course cards, only the courses you designate as “favorites” will be visible.  Depending on your teaching load, this will probably happen within the second or third term you use Canvas. From that point on, you will need to manually adjust your “favorite” courses from time to time, usually as you’re getting ready for each new term.

Instructions

In the blue Global Navigation Bar at the far left, select Courses [1] and then All Courses [2].  This will pull up a full list of all of your Canvas sites. You can sort them by title, term, published/unpublished, or any of the column headings shown.

To mark a course as a favorite, click the hollow star icon [3] beside the course title to fill it in. To remove a course from favorites, click the filled-in star icon [4] beside the course title to make it hollow.  The courses with the filled-in star will appear on your Dashboard, up to a maximum of 20 courses at a time. (The mobile app allows up to 10 courses.)

IMPORTANT!

Once a course’s end date has passed, you will not be able to add it as a favorite, although you will be able to remove it from favorites.  Even though it won’t appear on your Dashboard, you will still be able to access it through the All Courses listing, [2] above.

TL;DR

“Favorite” or “unfavorite” courses to identify which course sites will show up on your Canvas Dashboard.