Remove colour overlay from course cards that have an image

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

 

           

Howdy all,

Firstly I have to say the new course cards image feature is awesome and a great leap forward. I have been using it a bit now and have a small request for a future revision.

 

When a course is given an image for the course card on a user's dashboard, I would really like to see the colour overlay removed (so that the image does not looked washed out with the user selected colour).

 

Ideally, I would love to see this configurable on an account level rather than an individual course level, but that is just from an administrator's perspective.

 

Just to visualise this more, the current behaviour with a couple of different colours:

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And the ideal/requested behaviour:

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Additional thoughts:

I do realise the colour is important for a few different areas in relation to the course, so perhaps the bottom bar could be extended as a border around the entire card (just as one example).

 

Many thanks  team,

Keep up the awesome work!

 

Comments from Instructure

For more information, please read through the Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-05-13) 

208 Comments
jbrady2
Community Champion

Based on my ongoing discussion with  @James ​ concerning the potential drawbacks of Course Card images in general, I created the following Feature Idea, , which opened for voting today.  I support the removal of the overlay color, but I would like to see the ultimate control of the user's dashboard appearance remain under the user's control.

rgibson1
Community Champion

If you want to see te color overlay feature rescinded or amended, please vote....and spread the word. I'm on a hunger strike until it's fixed.... 😃

James
Community Champion

How much weight do you want to lose, rgibson1​​? It can take a while for Canvas to fix things.

rgibson1
Community Champion

I was going to hold my breath....

stuart_ryan
Community Novice
Author

LOL spreading the word as much as we can Rob!

rgibson1
Community Champion

Hurry....!

johnmartin
Community Champion

I love the image option, and agree about removing the color overlay — or at least offering the ability to adjust the transparency of it.

ppeerzada
Community Novice

Great idea - just what we were looking for - my vote is in Smiley Happy

stuart_ryan
Community Novice
Author

Hmm you must be getting PRETTTTTY hungry by now!

rgibson1
Community Champion

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The Canvas color overlay. (Ooops. I mean a 1970s Polaroid image.)

Ham radio optional.....