Q. Course Emailer and Manage Sections tabs on the left navigation are grayed out. Can we still get access to them?

Yes!

HUIT recently made a change that greyed out the Course Emailer and Manage Sections. All teaching staff/faculty/course support staff can still access and use both of these tools as long as they are visible in the left navigation. The change was made to follow the Canvas logic "if it's grayed out, student's cant see it", similar to "Settings". If you don’t see them in your left navigation, go to "Course Settings" then click the "Navigation" tab and drag the tool you want into the upper navigation section and hit "Save."  This will allow teaching staff to use the tools, but they will not be visible to students.