add newly accept course to course menu by default

[bgesteland]

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After someone accepts a course invitation, could Canvas add the course, by default, to the course menu? That way, people would see the course immediately in their drop-down lists and could remove it later.

  Comments from Instructure

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[buddyhall]

I don't think even Instructure expected the dashboard to start working like this even though they say it's how it always worked. We have tier 1 support and at the start of the term Canvas support was directing, "I don't see my courses" back to us thinking they weren't enrolled. We told a lot of people to click All Courses and star the new ones.

[christopher_mcg]

And had to inform the users that once they "starred" a course, Canvas' behavior forever changed and they would now always have to go in and Star/Favorite every new course they enrolled in, every semester.  I apologized to many, many, many students that Canvas did not inform them about this change in its behavior upon Favoriting a course.

[LisaCasto]

Absolutely agree! So confusing in January! 

[kharris1186]

Absolutely necessary. This is too confusing and hurts a student trying to get started and already feeling lost in online courses.

[allison]

Hi all,

This is interesting and relates to another idea I had around favoriting courses, which I'd like to run past you. What if, by default, all courses are "favorites" and show up with a star on the Courses page. Then if you want to remove a course from your course menu, you would be required to unfavorite it by deselecting its star.

Then to incorporate your idea, when a user accepts an enrollment, their course appears starred on the courses page and also appear in the course menu.

What are your thoughts around that?

[Jeff_F]

We may have a bell ringer here folks.

Couple this approach with a conclude policy and we would all be certain to have a clean and functional course menu.

[kona]

If it means it can get implemented sooner rather than later, then yes, I'm all for it!

[ejackson]

That would definitely work for me!

[buddyhall]

Yes! I think this is an elegant solution to this problem.

[RobDitto]

Deactivated user, favoriting courses by default for newly active enrollments sounds ideal. It's what all of our institution's users expect to happen.