Course menu items invisible to students if unused

[stenochstanly]

Course menu items linked to pages that are not yet used/edited/filled with content by the teacher (and therefore useless to the students) should automatically be INVISIBLE to the students (even if the pages are not deactivated by the teacher) until they actually are used/edited/filled with content by the teacher (and therefore useful for the students).

Why?

My experience of Canvas is that most of the teachers are not aware of the possibility to disable the default course menu items (set by the Canvas admin), which results in a lot of unnecessary and distracting menu items.
We always have 16 default course menu items - but only 6 is used... (Imagine if that would be the case in the MAIN menu - add 10 never used items in the MAIN menu and let it be up to each teacher to [never] deactivate the 10 unnecessary items).
There is room for improvement when 60+% of the menu items are useless and distracting for the students, over and over again.

Of course some of the menu items, such as Startpage, Users and maybe Files could always be visible, but items like Conferences, Collaborations, Discussions and the External tools should be invisible for the student until they are actually used/edited/filled with content by the teacher.

This idea is about less visible Course menu items, not ordered and/or locked menu items, and has nothing to do with https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Course-Navigation-Default-Order/idc-p/400848#M...

Thank you

[Renee_Carney]

@stenochstanly 

I'm glad you linked to the other idea. The other idea is about being able to set a course level default as an instructor - so being able to set which tabs are are visible and which aren't. These are different approaches to solve the same problem so we're going to archive this thread.

Also, in your list of tabs that you shared above it sounds like your school may have added some extra tabs at the organization level. "Startpage" would be one of those. So you may want to talk with your local admin to see if there are any they've created that could be hidden by default

[stenochstanly]

@Renee_Carney  Come on now...

This fundamentally different, since that other thread is about manual settings. What ever the best manual setting is it will always include local admins and teachers.

@Stef_retired  wrote "Please know that if there is a change to the items included as default in course navigation, it will definitely at minimum involve Canvas admins and more likely be a design change where control rests with the campus admin based on their assessment of the needs of their organization"

This idea is about always and automatically hide menu items that are linked to course pages not yet in use (even if they are default items or ordered in a perfect way). This is on a structural level, not involving teachers that usually fail to manually de-list unused menu items.

This is parallel to and bypass the whole discussion about which menu items should be listed by default and/or in which order.

To be clear: Even if the idea in that other thread is 100% implemented, the problem that I am trying to help you fix is still 100% present.