Turn off welcome tour

[parent]

How to I turn off the welcome tour so it doesn't pop up every single time I log in to canvas?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

@parent ...

Hello there!  I believe that you can contact your school's local Canvas administrator or someone at your school's Online Learning/eLearning department, and they can turn it off for your entire school.  They may have had a reason they wanted to turn it on for everyone, but that would be a conversation you'd want to have with people at your school.

I hope this will help a bit...thanks!  Take care, stay safe, and be well.

[JamieMabry]

That isn't really a solution for an individual by shutting it off to all. Is there a specific thing I can do for my personal settings. It is a pain to have to click through or click the screen down every time I log on. 

[Chris_Hofer]

Hi @JamieMabry ...

As a Canvas user, you do have some individual settings that you can configure in your profile (via the "Account" >> "Settings" screen).  At the very bottom of that screen are a bunch of Feature Options that you can toggle on/off.  Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything related to the welcome tour that you can individually turn on/off.

[DaGIFT222]

I've been trying to figure this out for the last four months!

[Sam29]

There is a value that is saved to the browser's local storage once you have completed the tutorial (in case you care, it's canvas-tourpoints-shown-student:"true")
I have setup my firefox to delete all cookies and saved data whenever I close the browser - so this value is also deleted.

When your canvas page loads, if this value is missing then it will show you the tutorial.

I wish the browsers would give finer-grain control over what gets deleted, but they don't. The only thing I can do is add an exception so cookies and saved data won't get deleted for the canvas site.

So, if you're getting the welcome tutorial every time you load Canvas, make sure you're browser isn't deleting the cookies and saved data for the site.

It would be nice if Canvas gave you a setting to disable it, since it will still appear when using a different computer to access the site - which, if you're in a school or university setting then I have to imagine using a different computer is the norm. This must get pretty annoying for students.