Canvas not Enforcing Sequential Order in Modules

[thall5]

I want students to move through a module with two items in sequential order. I believe I have it set up correctly, but Canvas is not enforcing the sequential order. I've attached screenshots of the module (there are two items and they are in the correct order), the requirements page (I have both listed as requirements, and I have checked the relevant box), and my 'student view' (where I am able to see and navigate to and start the second assignment without first completing the first one).

I recreated the module from scratch and got the same problem. 

I have used this feature many times in the past, and in student view I was able to see but not access later assignments in the module.

What could be happening?

[TrishaMeyer1]

Hi @thall5 

I'm not seeing any screenshots, but my first thought is whether you reset your Test Student. If you did not reset the Test Student, the Student View preview will behave according to the Test Student's previous actions. Even if you recreated the Module, Canvas might still be seeing the items themselves as done already.

[SarahCartwright]

I don't see your screenshots, but the same thing is happening to me. I have put everything in my module in the order I need, I've set the requirement in the module to require them to move through everything in sequential order, I've set the requirements (in order!) for viewing, submitting, etc. Still, I have a couple students who somehow skipped passed the majority of the content in the module and went right to the last assignment they had to turn in. I can see this through their module progress (and by only the last assignment being submitted without any of the other work submitted). I thought I had tested everything in student view as soon as I had everything published, as I usually do, but maybe I forgot. I just went on Test Student (and reset), and was able to open just that last assignment without any issues, (which of course, is my issue.)

I used to wonder when it happened a time or two before if there was some glitch that ignored the set requirements when an assignment was accessed through another tab (Assignments, from the Calendar, etc.). I'm hoping we can get an answer and solution on this soon!

[thall5]

I remember taking such care to document my problem with screenshots and don't know why they didn't end up in my question, but it sounds like the same problem.

I don't know if it's relevant, but my materials were copied from a previous course in which they functioned as expected. 

And mine only happened when I had two items in the module (although i only used the feature for test & retest assignments, and put those in a single module, so the misbehaving modules just happened to have two things in them)

I remember recreating the misbehaving module from scratch and re-editing all the requirements and assuring the assignments in the module were in the correct order, etc. (and documenting the whole thing with screenshots) and it didn't matter.

What fixed it, if I remember correctly, was adding a new thing to the beginning of the module (some random page), which got it to work as expected, and then removing that addition, and the order was still enforced.

At the time I thought the fix was adding a third item. Maybe it was just adding a new item? 

I wouldn't be at all surprised if that doesn't work for you, but it's an easy thing to try.

Good luck!