The left-hand navigation bar in Canvas can be customized to show or hide items based on what features you would like enabled in your course. Some navigation items are only shown to instructors while others have both student and instructor views. Choosing what you do and don't display in the navigation bar can help focus your course to items that you actually need and avoid student confusion about what features you are using.

To enable or disable features in the navigation bar

1. Navigate to your course.
2. In the left-hand navigation, select Settings.
   
3. Select the Navigation tab.
   
4. The navigation page is divided up into two sections. The items at the top are items that are currently enabled in the course navigation bar. The items at the bottom are items that are currently not enabled in the navigation bar. You can either drag and drop items from the bottom list to the top list to enable it (or from the top to the bottom to disable it) OR select the three dots menu next to each item to select whether you want that item enabled or disabled instead.
   
5. Select Save at the bottom of the screen to save your changes.