Quick Toggle Student View

[ian_heung]

Being able to toggle into Student View within my classes in order to double- and triple-check to make sure "everything is as it should seem" is a wonderful feature built into Canvas.

FEATURE IDEA: Have a quick toggle button located at the upper-righthand navigation that allowed me to toggle Student View ON/OFF easily, would improve my workflow and efficiency in setting up new assignment / pages / etc.

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2020-12-19) - Canvas Community

[jbarrios]

It would be nice and more efficient to have the "View As Student" from any page in the course instead of just the home page. 

[Stef_retired]

Comments from Instructure

The Student View button displays in supported individual Canvas pages. This change allows instructors to view individual pages using the Test Student more quickly.

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2020-12-19) - Canvas Community 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this conversation. Your investment in this idea helped refine an idea that is now part of Canvas!

[Steven_S]

@dan_baeckstrom   These improvements to the test student are great!  Do you have any ideas about updates that might address these related requests? 

Student-View-Bypass-Prerequisites

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Specific-Real-student-view

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[dan_baeckstrom]

@Steven_S Thanks for kind words. Unfortunately, I have very little experience with the issues you list. At a brief glance, the suggested ideas seem to require access to the server, and if so would fall outside of the scope of a browser extension.