[Dashboard] Default Dashboard Sorting (Prioritize Active Term / Published Courses)

[joshua_johnson1]

Problem statement:

Currently, the dashboard seems to automatically sort all courses (published and unpublished) alphabetically on the dashboard when a teacher is not utilizing the favorite tags. It appears that in some cases, courses in future terms are being prioritized over courses that are active in the current term. When our registrar creates courses for upcoming terms, we've had many teachers suddenly frantic over disappearing courses. While teachers can utilize the favorite option, this does cause issues when the forget to unfavorite courses and don't realize that the new empty courses are ready to be utilized for an upcoming semester.

Proposed solution:

I suggest that the default dashboard should prioritize PUBLISHED courses in ACTIVE terms first, always displaying those, and then show the remaining (20?) in whatever order seems best.

User role(s):

instructor,student

[KristinL]

Hi! Thanks for sharing your idea with the Community! I think you'd also be interested in Make the course list sortable. 🙂