Force Gradebook to use full screen height on modern screen resolutions

[Fergus-Wood]

I frequently disappointed at having to use the Gradebook through a "letterbox" view on a large monitor. 

Many of the list-based screens in Canvas are restricted to a pixel height, which results in a table of only 10 rows (with a scrollbar), when the screen real estate could easily show 20-30 rows. It feels very old-school that these tables cannot render in the full screen area available. It makes managing large cohorts frustrating as you need to unnecessarily scroll.

Has anyone come across a way to force the Gradebook to use the full vertical height available?

 

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @Fergus-Wood,

What you're seeing in your grades area is something that is not inherent to Canvas. I'll attach a screenshot of a test course here (none of the students or assignments are real, no FERPA issues).

As you can see, I have way more rows, and if I was at my work computer and in an even larger-enrollment course, the gradebook would keep going.  I know there is a feature option in Canvas (New User Tutorial) that can affect how wide page content can be, but I don't think it affects vertical spacing at all.  I'd honestly recommend reaching out to your school/institution Canvas team (usually in the eLearning / IT / Digital Education area) to see if this is something they customized for some reason.

I hope the screenshot helps to at least show Canvas does normally let the grades area take up more vertical space.

-Chris

[Fergus-Wood]

Hey @chriscas - thanks for the reply! Our "letterbox" tables is of-the box Canvas behavior for *our* instances. Interesting that you have full-page vertical rendered lists. We have not knowingly added any customizations that would limit the render size of the user list block. I look after our Learning technology function, so we only have ourselves to reach out to !

[chriscas]

Hi @Fergus-Wood,

If you're familiar with HTML at all, I'd maybe suggest right clicking on the empty space at the bottom of your screen in a browser and choosing "inspect".  I'd be curious to see if there is an html element taking up the space down there.  If not, there would almost have to be some kind of customization changing the scroll behavior of the gradebook.  You could try adding '?global_includes=0' to the end of your gradebook URL to see if the gradebook them takes up the whole page (this should cause Canvas to skip loading any custom CSS/JS).

-Chris