[Modules] Hiding and Viewing Modules for Individual Sections

[GideonWilliams]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

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Parts of this have been mentioned in previous requests (Modules within Modules and others) and I wonder if this is more to do with the needs of K12 than beyond?

We run a model based on UK curriculum which may be different to other school models (10+ subjects in a timetable, classes selected by ability, external examinations in 2/3 year groups, different content taught depending on the class etc). Having begun our implementation of Canvas the last thing we wished to do is create individual courses for each class and teacher in a subject. With up to 9 classes in a subject this would be an administrative nightmare and would go against much of what I believe a VLE is for - forward facing, collaborative, personalised, sharing of resources etc.

The reality is at school level it is very very difficult to create a core course that is truly personalised without some form of conditions/restrictions especially as "content is king". We add our classes as separate sections which enables assignments to be posted to individual classes. We would dearly like Canvas to go further and enable this option for other content such as pages/links etc.

The idea being suggested though is for teachers to be able to hide/view modules for individual sections

This would allow content (pages, links etc) to be viewed by individual sections. It would give teachers and students the best of both worlds. Modules could be 'turned on' for all sections or individual sections. It would allow you to create differentiated blocks of content/resources eg for those students who are perhaps sitting the 'Higher Level' exam. It would also allow us to support subjects where they have banded/set ability groups. It would also support subjects where topics are done on rotation due to resourcing. It would also reduce the risk of common core subjects such as Maths/Science developing vast 'silos' of resources/modules and making navigation harder than it should be. Would it also be less messy than Conditional activities?

I know that some suggestions have talked about creating extra courses but with the majority of our students having up to 15 courses to manage, the last thing I wish to see is doubling up courses and reducing engagement.

I think this is more of a K12 issue and it would be nice to see a little bit of love sent their way...

UPDATE: APRIL 2018

I was at the Dutch Users Group consortium on Friday. This consortium represents a sizeable and growing number of universities, colleges and schools within the Netherlands. As a group, we identified a number of ideas we wished to take forward and the one above emerged as a clear favourite (without any prompting from me!)

This is now an idea that has support across multiple educational organisations and the benefits of this idea are seen as hugely positive and wide ranging.

As the last comment on this was 16 months ago and 2 years since the idea was published, it would be nice to know what progress, if any, has been made here.

[bstanley]

Are 855  a lot of votes?  It looks like about 94% in the positive column.  What is the criteria for it to be acted on?

[dave_perry]

I come from a former moodle house - moodle was capable of doing this before this idea got posted here.

You would think that with nearly 400 upvotes it would be put onto the 'implement' list? It is one of the biggest issues we have with canvas, especially like you say where we have multiple groups (or almost identical courses such as Diploma and Certificate) using the same course but separated user-wise using Sections. We will be doing a lot more sectioning for the 20/21 academic year, but so far we can only see Assignments being able to use it. Modules is the next most important thing for us, to see this feature.

[tmoore8]

4 years later and this hasn't happened yet, how do we get this to move forward? I was trying to find a voting spot or something but as the world transitions to a lot of online classes, this makes so much sense. 

[ashok_thapa]

I am happy to vote for this feature. Looks like the idea in the link is archieved.

[Nancy_Webb_CCSF]

It looks like all of us now have to give 5 stars to this idea to re-vote?  I am not sure how things are working in the new community, if the votes from the old community are still counted somewhere.  Since we are now using ratings, it would be important to re-rate all the ideas you've supported. 

If the old votes are still being counted please let us know, thanks.

[Nancy_Webb_CCSF]

Could we also have modules prerequisites be forgiven by section as well as by individual?

[ashok_thapa]

Yes, community has changed to a newer style where I am not able to access most of the links too.

Has this happened to anyone, Revoting the idea into development phase or at least beta looks pretty challenging now, esp with the continued idea.

[dvander]

This would be an incredibly useful tool. Please add this to Canvas features.

[Challam]

This would be such a great feature for Canvas to have, and would solve a lot of our problems! Please consider this for the next release.

[khaled_al-ankar]

I agree with everyone in this post. It’s really time for this functionality to be in canvas. It will also allow so much more control over what the students have access to. The majority of canvas follows the same logic meaning you can show/assign content to individual section just not modules. As an example use case we deliver diploma. Awards, and Certificates but as this is a hybrid model course it has all the students studying together. Some modules are mandatory and some only apply to qualification level. But they are all enrolled in separate section on one course by qualification.

So this would help loads and it would be nice to know what progress, if any, has been made here.

Thanks

K