[ARCHIVED] Catalog Seats Available number disappears if over 20 seats

[sbarry2]

We have run into a recent issue with Catalog. When we list a course that has more than 20 seats available, the "# Seats Available" part of the  description disappears. Anything up to and including 20 seats appears. 

Anyone run into this? I have created a few courses to test my theory. 

Steve

[kevinhitt]

Hello  @sbarry2 , 

From what I have seen - this is expected behavior for Catalog. 

My institution prefers to not show this information and we hide it with some custom JS: 

document.getElementById("feature").querySelectorAll("p");

It sounds like you are interested in displaying the # of available seats regardless of how many?

Best, 

Kevin Hitt

[sbarry2]

 @kevinhitt ‌

We like having the seat remaining information displayed and have not done any .js work to hide it. However, I don't understand why it would stop appearing if the course seat number is over 20. If there are 21(or more) seats available, the information disappears. Is there a cap? Why so low?

[kevinhitt]

 @sbarry2 ‌

To my understanding, it's part of Catalog's setup:

Users won't know the number of seats remaining for a listing until there are fewer than 20 enrollments. After that number, users can view the number of spots remaining.

Per Canvas doc: How do enrollment caps and wait lists appear in the catalog for a course or program listing? 

I assume they do not show > 20 available seats to not make the class look unattractive/unpopular. 

I do not expect that Instructure would make any changes on this specifically for your Catalog instance, however, it couldn't hurt to share with your CSM & see if they have flexibility. 

[sbarry2]

 @kevinhitt ‌

I didn't notice that line in the description. Thank you for your help.