The Settings tab inside of each course includes a few very useful features. Here are just a few:

Adjusting the availability and order of course navigation tabs.

Instructors can customize their course navigation by choosing to hide or show any of the tabs. To do so follow these steps:

Click on the Settings
Select the Navigation tab.
From here you can Disable or rearrange the navigation tabs.

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4. Or you can scroll down and Enable tabs that are not visible to students

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NOTE: When the Course navigation tabs are grayed out it means that students cannot see the tab. This results from one of two scenarios.

Scenario 1 - None of this type of content exists in your course. For example, if I have not created any quizzes in my course then the Quizzes tab will always be grayed out. Instructors can still see the tab and click on it, but students cannot see it or access it in any way.
Scenario 2 - Even if you have content of that type in the course, you can hide the tab by Disabling it as described above. This will also result in the tab appearing grayed out to the instructor with no student visibility or accessibility.

Student View

Instructors can view their course through a student's perspective by enabling Student view. This can be very helpful when trying to ensure your student will experience the course the way you anticipate and to help you catch mistakes that are hard to see when with all of the additional settings visible to instructors. To do this follow these steps:

Click the Settings tab
Select the Student View tab on the right.

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Once you have enabled student view all of the settings and options unique to the Instructor role will be replaced by those specific to the Student role. You will know you are in Student View when you see the pink border around the screen as seen below.

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You can now interact with your course as if you are a student. This includes navigation, submitting documents to assignments, completing quizzes, and posting to discussion boards.

To reset your student to a state where any activities you have completed as a Student click the Reset Student button. To return to your Instructor role click Leave Student View button. Both are on the bottom right side of your screen.