Organize the Term Selection Drop-down List

[jason_hill]

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As a Canvas Admin I need a more efficient method to select the term associated with specific courses when searching for courses in the Course Filtering section of an account page. Currently, the 'Show courses from the term:' drop-down list displays all of the terms in a haphazard way making it difficult to quickly select the needed term.

However, on the Grading page for an account (...accounts/000/grading_standards), the 'Attach terms' selection field (this field is visible when you have Grading Periods enabled and you're creating/editing a Grading Period) displays the terms beautifully by organizing the terms according to their current state (Active, Future, and Past - in that order) See my attached screenshot. I know this isn't really a drop-down list on this particular page, but similar functionality needs to be implemented when searching for a course on an account page. UVU is among the earliest of adopters of Canvas (best decision ever), and our Term list is getting as long as the list of reasons we had to switch from Blackboard back in the day .

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For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-12-10)

[jordan]

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[jenn_stevens]

Yessss! This would be amazing!

[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-12-10)

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[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to  @jason_hill  for submitting this idea, as well as, jennifer_stevens for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas!

[swinter]

Wish I had this. Too bad voting happened before I was as active on Canvas. 

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @swinter ‌

As noted by Renee, this is now a feature in Canvas so you do have it!

Kelley

[swinter]

Hi. I don't see the ability to do this in my Terms area. I can only add. If this exists, please share where the instructions are since they do not come up in the search results.