[Courses] Make the course list sortable

[jmc6]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

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When you click on Courses and then All Course, Canvas lists them in some random order. As my number of courses builds up over the semesters, with many courses of the same name, I would like to be able to SORT my list of courses by Name, Semester, Recently used, etc.

So... please let us sort these courses so that we can easily find what we are looking for!

[haneyjx]

Problem statement:

In the "All Courses" list view, there is no way to sort or search the courses by different criteria, and they are listed in seemingly random order.

Proposed solution:

Allow sorting of courses in the list chronologically, alphabetically, and to search by title.

User role(s):

instructor

[ehills]

Problem statement:

Instructors in my school district have a lot of courses when they click on Courses -> All Courses. It can make it difficult for instructors to find the course they want to star to put on their dashboard or find courses they don't frequently use.

Proposed solution:

It would be great if those courses were sortable by name and term similar to how admins can sort the list of courses by clicking the headings along the top of the courses list.

User role(s):

instructor

[EmilyEstrada1]

Problem statement:

Teachers in our School District have the ability to view all of their past enrollments. Is there a way to add a sort/filter feature to the All Courses page, particularly the past enrollments section?

Proposed solution:

Add a sort and filter button to the All courses page, specifically the past enrollments section.

User role(s):

admin,instructor,ta

[KristinL]

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Deploy Notes (2024-06-18)