[ARCHIVED] Is it possible to remove or collapse the right 'Course Status' bar?

[joel_taylor]

To the right of any course page (module/assignment/page/etc.) is a 'Course Status' side bar which includes quick links for settings and items 'coming up'. This specifically applies for the instructor, but could also apply to students.

Is it possible to collapse this bar or remove is to increase page real-estate?

 

[Ron_Bowman · Accepted solution]

@joel_taylor -

If I understand your question as to where you are seeing that menu, there must be a way at the institution level.  In my courses, the only place I see that page is on the home page - which makes sense.  Seeing it on other pages (quizzes, assignments, etc) may be useful if content needs to be imported  because you have the link right there instead of having to go back to the home page.

My best guess is that it is a setting that your institution can turn on or off with your instance of Canvas.  

[joel_taylor]

Thanks, @Ron_Bowman. That is helpful.

[Ron_Bowman]

@joel_taylor 

Your welcome.  I hope that is the reason you are seeing it.  Of course it may be that other people were demanding it to be there.  

By the way if you are not adverse to using tampermonkey to run javascripts, I suggest you check out the following one:

https://github.com/jamesjonesmath/canvancement/tree/master/miscellaneous  - you want the Canvas-CSS-Tweaks-user java script to install in tampermonkey.
James has made it so that page width increase script works only on a couple of locations.  What it does is instead of a big white space on the right side if you increase the browser width, the entire width is used by canvas.  I tweaked the script so that it works everywhere.  My Change is below:
I added up in the top section the following match line: // @match https://*.instructure.com/*
With that line, anywhere I go in my course will  automatically use the full width.  James said that he only put in the two areas because that is what he needed and what he tested.  He does not guarantee that I won't run into possible issues with displaying information with what I have, but I have not had any issues in the past year.

If you want to have fun and check out other Canvancements by James, Here you go: https://github.com/jamesjonesmath/canvancement

If you are using classic quizzes, I highly recommend Quiz-wiz rubrics.

If you are not using classic quizzes, but you do use rubrics, I highly recommend Quiz-wiz rubrics for the rubrics part

[cmidyett15]

Hey Joel, 

Were you able to find a solution for removing the course status bar from the Home page? I'm trying to remove it from my course, so I can make space for a 4 column button design. 

Let me know what you think and appreciate the help!

Best

Chase