[Admin Analytics] Select All Option in Filter

[Chris_Hofer]

Problem: When in Admin Analytics and using the Filter button, the Select All option is not immediately available to select all items within the dropdown lists for Sub-Account, Term, Courses, and Teacher.

Solution: Please make Select All available immediately without having to type in text in the Search boxes.

Use Case: Recently, I wanted to use Admin Analytics to get some data about all courses in our Canvas account.  We have about 50 sub-accounts in our Canvas environment.  I went to Admin Analytics, clicked on the Filter button, and then clicked on the dropdown menu for Sub-Account.  The Select All link at the bottom of the dropdown list was not available to click on.  After contacting the Canvas Help Desk staff, I learned that an admin needs to first enter at least one letter into the Search Sub-Accounts text box in order for the Select All link to become active.  This is counter-intuitive, and it causes many more mouse clicks than are absolutely necessary.  For example, we have a sub-account called "ENGLISH".  However, when I typed the letter "a" into the Search Sub-Accounts text box, I was only able to select 42 of the 50 sub-accounts (using the Select All link).  "ENGLISH" does not contain the letter "a", so it would not show up in those results.  I then needed to remove the "a" from the text box and come up with a different letter that, hopefully, would cover some or all of the remaining eight sub-account names that did not have the letter "a"...one of which was the "ENGLISH" sub-account.  I could choose the letter "e" to type in the Search Sub-Accounts text box, but that might not cover the remaining eight sub-account names to select.  It might only cover three or four of them, for example.  I would then have to again pick another letter, and maybe even another letter...or I could scroll through the entire list to try and find the remaining ones that had not been selected.

The Canvas technician that helped me pointed to the Guide How do I use Admin Analytics?.  I do now see the area within this Guide that discusses the process I've outlined above.  However, I feel that making the Select All link immediately active instead of having to first type in a random letter is a much better option for those of us who want to select all items in the list.

*NOTE 1: This happens in the Term, Courses, and Teacher dropdown menus on this screen, too.