Pages, Wiki Pages, Content Pages -- Need Consistent Naming in Canvas

[macaulayl]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

  Idea will be open for vote Wed. June 3, 2015 - Wed. September 2, 2015  Learn more about voting...

Faculty get so confused because Pages=Wiki Pages=Content Page depending on what you are looking at in Canvas.  Can't everything just be names PAGES so everyone knows they are the same thing and keep it simple?

  Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the following notes:

• Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-08-27) (addressed in the Rich Content Editor Sidebar feature option)
• Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-11-19) (addressed for Course Settings, Modules, Permissions)

[scottdennis]

Hello macaulayl​

Thank you for taking the time to submit to the feature ideas forum.

I just now updated your idea submission to the queue that will open for vote on June 3rd.

Cheers,

Scott

[hvaughn]

Terminology consistency would be awesome!

[Renee_Carney]

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[davidnas]

I just came across this one and I see that voting has been closed.  I'll be honest... I think it's a bit ridiculous that this feature request even needs to be voted on in order for it to be addressed.  Consistent terminology is one of the most basic elements of good design and plays heavily into the overall UX.  It should be addressed and corrected whether it gets 100 votes or not, imo.

[jordan]

 @davidnas  et al,

I just wanted to let you all that this is going up for voting again in a new feature idea cohort on February 3rd. Please mark it on your cal and come back to vote this up!

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[Renee_Carney]

  This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2016-08-27)

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you to macaulayl for submitting this idea, as well as,  @hvaughn ​ &  @davidnas  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of the Canvas!

[michael_mccormi]

But it has not been developed and deployed. When building a module, inserting a page is referred to as inserting a "content page" and when linking to a page, the editor refers to pages are referred to as "wiki pages".

[kmeeusen]

Hi  @michael_mccormi 

I had not thought about it after the release Renee mentioned, but I checked just now, and you are correct. I still see all three references.

KLM

[davidnas]

Yep, I pretty much gave up on this once I saw that they claimed to have addressed it even though they didn't.  Just like they didn't directly address our concerns when it was first pointed out (in the comments of the other associated feature request), instead choosing to stick with the same boilerplate about voting up feature ideas (thereby treating this like a feature request, even though it clearly is not).  It's become clear to me that this was just poor design from the beginning, and that poor design is so deeply ingrained within the system now, that it will take too much work for them to change it to how it should have been from the beginning.  They just don't want to say that.  Clearly it's a lost cause to get them to fix it the way it should be or provide an explanation as to why it would be designed that way in the first place.

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