We have more schools using the admin- and course-level groups feature to communicate with staff in the building and differentiate by type of staff, grade level teams, departments and others. It would be extremely beneficial if the group function allowed them to set a custom homepage. If you go to the pages it does allow you to set a homepage but then the group home only shows the recent activity stream.
This idea was considered when developing our product plan for Q4 2019 and is not expected to influence development within Canvas at this time.
This idea will remain open for vote.
If this idea is in the next cycle it will be reconsidered.
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Here's the previous Feature Idea that has now been archived due to a lack of needed votes: Allow groups to set a page as the homepage