You can view a course the same way that your students view your course through Student View. Enabling Student View creates a Test Student in your course.

In Student view, you can view the course, post and reply to discussions, submit assignments, view grades (as a student), view people, view pages, view the syllabus, view quizzes, view the calendar, and view the scheduler (if enabled).

You will see only what you, as the instructor, allow your students to see.

Notes:

Each Canvas course has a separate Test Student account. Whenever you move to a new course you will need to enable Student View for that course.
Submissions and scores for the Test Student do not affect course analytics.
You can only view the course layout as it is seen by your students. You cannot view student-specific information, such as conversations between students.
Once you activate Student View, the Test Student is shown in the Gradebook and is automatically added to every section in your course.

Limitations of Student View

Some Canvas tools do not work for the Test Student. Trying to access these tools in Student View will result in an access error, a blank screen, or other inconsistent behavior. Tools that do not work for the Test Student include:

Attendance
Conferences
Conversations
Collaborations
Course Evaluations
Echo360
Groups
My Media
Reading Lists
Advanced features of Assignments (such as differentiated assignments and peer review)

Open Student View

Go to your course site and click the Student View button in the upper right corner.

Student View button

You can now view the course as a student user would see it. For example, students cannot see the Settings navigation link like instructors can.

You will know if you are in Student View because of the persistent box on the bottom of the screen indicating you are logged into Student View.

Reset Student

You can also reset the Test Student by clicking Reset Student. This will clear all history for the student allowing you to start with a clean slate.

For example, if you take a quiz as the Test Student and want to take it again, you can click the Reset Student button and take a new first attempt at the quiz.

Leave Student View

To return to your course in the instructor view, click the Leave Student View button.